Mark Boal Quotes & Sayings
12 most famous Mark Boal quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a American journalist ..
“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.”
“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.”
“I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.”
“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.”
“I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.”
“I had no idea what it would be like to be a bomb tech in Baghdad until I got there so I didn't know what to expect. It was very eye-opening.”
“I suck at titles.”
“I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.”
“The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.”
“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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