I'm not gay, but I don't think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. … I'm also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless I always identified with him so much.

As quoted in "Imitation Game scribe Graham Moore: 'You don't have to be gay to have a gay hero'" in Entertainment Weekly (24 February 2015)