It's really interesting for me as a filmmaker to go back and look at the films I've made and see where I was at that point in my life and also where my ideals were and the beliefs that I had and look at the ways I've grown and evolved and apply that to the next thing.

Mark Webber

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I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

Mark Webber

family racing healthy

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.

Mark Webber

champion guy world

Life is a cycle of ends and starts.

Mark Webber

cycles ends life-is

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

Mark Webber

theme process writing

Winning in Monaco is always special. That track has always been good to me. I won there in Formula 3000, battled for the victory with Williams in 2006 and now I've won two of the last three grands prix there.

Mark Webber

track winning two

That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool.

Mark Webber

play fun believe

When people can be vulnerable to one another then you're kind of giving people permission to really be yourself and not try to impress all the time and you get into more interesting work. You're being real and you're not afraid to mess up or seem weird.

Mark Webber

being-yourself real people

For me to train and get ready for racing, I can't just sit in the gym all the time and that's the way it is. Responsibility starts and stops with me. My main gig is grand prix driving, that's what I do and I need to keep that in the forefront of my mind.

Mark Webber

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Be in the moment as an actor and as a human being, and you're going to be happy.

Mark Webber

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I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.

Mark Webber

whatever-happens kind happens

I hate wearing trousers and shoes. I wear jeans and sneakers most of the time.

Mark Webber

sneakers jeans hate

I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.

Mark Webber

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As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.

Mark Webber

creating opportunity people

I love putting things together. I love putting together a team and making stuff with people. It's great, that's what's cool about movies it's such a collaborative effort.

Mark Webber

effort team people

I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.

Mark Webber

One of the biggest things I struggle with in life is not being present. I'm worried about my future or I'm dwelling on my past, and I'm wondering why I'm not feeling so great right now, but it's because I'm everywhere else, besides what is currently happening in front of me.

Mark Webber

dwelling struggle past

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

Mark Webber

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A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.

Mark Webber

filmmaking bullshit

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

Mark Webber

actors want years

When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made

Mark Webber

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