53 Quotes by Mark Webber

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

When I’m driving I should make more of an effort with my iPod, but I’m too lazy to organise a playlist.

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.

After Turkey, as much as the team denied it, it became slowly but painfully evident that Marko was pulling the strings. More than that: there was an agenda – his. I had been assured by Christian that as long as he and Adrian were at Red Bull I would be looked after. They said they wanted me to win races; they even wanted me to win the title and I believed them. I did wonder, though, what would happen if they weren’t there! That.