Mark Wahlberg Quotes

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.

You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.

I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

I've always been fascinated with everything behind the camera and in front.

For me, learning about cinema and the craft and the art of it, through making films with great people, has been such a cool experience.

I don't make projects; I make films.

I love directing, It means so much to me to direct stories about subject matter that I care deeply about. I can act in many things, and you can try to experience different characters, but to direct is years of your life and you have to really love it and believe in it.

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.

I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the camera and really change things cinematically, and this is giving me an opportunity to do something behind the camera, which I really want to maximize.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

I've wanted to make movies ever since I was a kid. I knew that was my goal.