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Mark Boal

Passage of time can be mind-n...

Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two.

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Mark Boal

You're trying to dramatize ev...

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.

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Mark Boal

Ever since 9/11, I found myse...

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.

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Mark Boal

I had an eye-opening experien...

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.

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Mark Boal

So to be standing here, this ...

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

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Mark Boal

For better or worse, most of ...

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.

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Mark Boal

I think as a filmmaker you tr...

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.

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Mark Boal

I actually think every war mo...

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

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Mark Boal

One big, glaring difference I...

One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.

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Mark Boal

Film-makers are always going ...

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

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Mark Boal

9/11, the wars and terrorism ...

9/11, the wars and terrorism have affected all of us in different ways: people who lost family on 9/11, the people who lost family in the wars and people who lost family in various terrorist attacks that have occurred since.

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Mark Boal

I've always been a fan of boo...

I've always been a fan of books that create an interesting blend of fact and fiction - whether it's Norman Mailer, or 'The Short Timers,' or 'In Cold Blood.' I'm a fan of that genre.

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Mark Boal

Film-makers are always going t...

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

Mark Boal 11 quotes
Mark Boal

For better or worse, most of m...

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 11 quotes
Mark Boal

You're trying to dramatize eve...

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 11 quotes
Mark Boal

Ever since 9/11, I found mysel...

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 11 quotes
Mark Boal

I think as a filmmaker you try...

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 11 quotes
Mark Boal

I write on a computer, on a la...

I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.

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Mark Boal

The fact is that war films, by...

The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.

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Mark Boal

For weeks after 9/11 you could...

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.

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