Graham Moore

I believe in traditions; I believe in the idea of things being passed between generations and the slow transmission of cultural values through tradition. ”

I started a novel right before 'The Imitation Game,' so it's funny now, four years later, to be coming almost back to finishing it. ”

I was not a successful TV comedy writer. ”

I liked Columbia, but it was like high school in that there was this big social world that I was not part of. I existed on the side, far away. That might be temperamental, my own fear of large groups, more than anything else. But I had a handful of professors who meant a lot to me. ”

Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.' And they would be like, 'Please don't ever write that script. That is an unmakeable film.' ”

The only way for something human to feel human is to convince others that it is. ”

The representation of gay characters on screen is important for us all to think about because there are sadly too few representations of gay characters on screen in mainstream cinema. If Marvel starts making movies about gay superheroes, then we'll be in a really great place. We're not at that place. ”

The Imitation Game' is a celebration of Alan Turing's life and legacy, and Joan's final monologue is our eulogy. It's the thing we all wished we could have said to him. ”

I did an adaptation for a movie called 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book. ”