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 o…

- Mark Boal

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

- Mark Boal

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 dra…

- Mark Boal

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 ot…

- Mark Boal

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

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

- Mark Boal

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

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

- Mark Boal

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 individua…

- Mark Boal