Mark Boal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.
-- Mark Boal

#Dream #Wildest Dreams #Honestly
I had an eye-opening experience in Baghdad at the end of 2004 and I thought that the story of these guys who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world would be an interesting way to look at the war in a broader sense.
-- Mark Boal

#Jobs #War #Eye
I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.
-- Mark Boal

#War #Thinking #Way
For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking.
-- Mark Boal

#New York #Military #Dust
The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.
-- Mark Boal

#War #Facts #Film
I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.
-- Mark Boal

#Writing #Laptops #Computer
For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.
-- Mark Boal

#Writing #Extraordinary Moments #People
Ever since 9/11, I found myself interested in chronicling the war and the war on terror and the way that this giant machinery was affecting individuals.
-- Mark Boal

#War #Giants #Way
You're trying to dramatize events to tell a story most effectively. That doesn't mean the events aren't true, it just means you're making them as dramatic as you possibly can.
-- Mark Boal

#Mean #Trying #Events
I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and end.
-- Mark Boal

#Thinking #Expectations #Trying

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