Dramatic Quote by Mark Boal Download Open image “The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range.” — Mark Boal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dramatic Fact Facts Film Films High Nature Range Very War
I think the war movie genre is a very important genre in film. Film gives you a visceral experience of something that you would… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“In movies, war only looks romantic. “Tell my gal I love her…” close-up shot, and fade out. It doesn’t work as beautifully and neat… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks. — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
War films usually so dark or dirty or intense, and sometimes they guide you to feeling a certain way against war, in general. But,… — Seth Gabel Copy Share Image
A war film can be propaganda and they're very valuable as propaganda, as we realized in Britain in the Second World War. Film as… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect… — Irwin Winkler Copy Share Image
People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking - as are 'Band of Brothers' and 'Platoon'… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
We don't really see a lot of war movies about the people that are left behind, dealing with the deaths of those who serve… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
I think as a filmmaker you try not to have any expectations other than that the film have a fairly substantial beginning, middle and… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area. — Susan Sullivan Copy Share Image
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying. — Bill Condon Copy Share Image
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
We have committed ourselves to pursue joint policies, but then national governments say, "We aren't bound by that." That is a dramatic situation, because… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened. — Nicholas Soames Copy Share Image
In 2008, Bitcoin was mysteriously introduced to the world in an obscure, technical paper written under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. By late 2013, the… — Steve Hanke Copy Share Image
