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.

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- Family
- Father
- Giving
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

Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself.

Morten Tyldum
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
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
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