Mark Wahlberg Quotes

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.

I like directing much better. It's more fun, that's all there is to it. It's essentially the same job, which is storytelling, but you have more control over the way you want to tell the story. It's a high. I love it.

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.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

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.

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

I think now I'm just excited to continue directing and find stories that inspire me and bring those to the screen.

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.

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.

You know what's it's changed is my appreciate for the art form of making cinema. I don't want to act as much as I want to tell stories. I want to be a part of the whole collective and pull all of the pieces together. That's what I love about directing.

I'm pretty focused on what I do. I think directing is a very specific talent, and I'm not real big on putting puzzles together, which is basically what a film is.

I am a director because I believe in my own impulses and my own point of view, and that belief encourages me to tell stories that will move, provoke, and change people. But I became a director because I wanted to be a part of the world.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.

Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

I feel like directing is an innate talent.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

I attempt to create a form of seriocomic entertainment to either delight, enlighten, or disgust, whichever you'd like. In terms of making motion pictures, I write and direct and act. I guess you'd say I'm a filmmaker.

I try and let the film do the talking.

You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know.