Morten Tyldum Quotes

Norway, Film Director
May 19, 1967

Morten Tyldum is a Norwegian film director. He is best known in his native Norway for directing Headhunters (2011), a thriller based on a novel by Jo Nesbø, and internationally for directing The Imitation Game (2014), a historical drama for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, and Passengers, a science fiction film.

What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

Morten Tyldum
- Family
- Father
- Giving
Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.

Morten Tyldum

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

Morten Tyldum
- Real
- Moments
- Happened
I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

Morten Tyldum
- School
- Found
- Calling
You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it.

Morten Tyldum
That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.

Morten Tyldum
Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

Morten Tyldum