Hardest time to lie to somebody is when they're expecting to be lied to.
— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Hardest time to lie to somebody is when they're expecting to be lied to.
— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Oh, Alan... we're gonna have such a wonderful war together.
— Graham Moore, Stewart Menzies, Mark Strong, The Imitation Game
Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes... hollow.
— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something, uh... thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? Well, we allow for humans to have such divergences from one anot…
— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. You think that because you're sitting where you are, and I am sitting where I am, that you are in control of what is…
— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Joan Clarke: Alan, what's happened? Alan Turing: [pause] We can't be engaged anymore. Your parents need to take you back. Find you a husband elsewhere. Joan Clarke: What's wrong with you? Alan Turing: I have something to tell you. I'm... I'm a homosexual. Joan Clarke: All right. Alan Turing: No, no,…
— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
I need some peace and quiet... or whatever it is people go away for.
Alan Turing: I like solving problems, Commander. And Enigma is the most difficult problem in the world. Commander Denniston: Enigma isn't difficult, it's impossible. The Americans, the Russians, the French, the Germans, everyone thinks Enigma is unbreakable. Alan Turing: Good. Let me try and we'll k…
— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Amanda: Sex makes everything more complicated. Even not having it, because the not having it... makes it complicated. Graham: That's why it's better to have it... some say.
Graham: Long-distance relationships can work, you know. Amanda: Really? I can't make one work when I live in the same house with someone.
I'm a full-time dad. I'm a working parent. I'm a mother and a father. I'm a guy who reads parenting books and cookbooks before I go to sleep. I spend my weekends buying tutus. I'm learning to sew. I'm Mr. Napkin Head!
When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. [pause] They say something else and you're expected to just know what they mean.
— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
You're supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for God's sake!
Call me old-fashioned but one doesn't have sex with women who are unconscious.
I like this Hugo Boss, he cuts a nice suit!
Say a man and a woman both need something to sleep in and both go to the same men's pajama department. The man says to the salesman, 'I just need bottoms,' and the woman says, 'I just need a top.' They look at each other and that's the 'meet cute.'
I have a cow and I sew. How's that for 'hard to relate to'?
The wind... it's what makes it so warm this time of year. Legend has it, when the Santa Anas blow, anything can happen.
Amanda: Are you D-I-V-O-R-C-E-D? Graham: No W-I-D-O-W-E-R.
Iris, in the movies, we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason, you're behaving like the best friend.