Sean Penn Quotes
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There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
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You need governance, but you also need a middle class, you need agriculture, they need to be able to export. I think that's probably the biggest issue, the job creation that could come with the kinds of things that Haiti has all the potential in the world to export.
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I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.
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There's not a lot of good movies being made.
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The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that first and say yes to people like Terrence Malick and Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen when they come and offer you movies. It's a great front row seat to filmmaking.
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I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for a quarter. But not in a hostile way, just for giggles. They really are on the attack against mankind; it's a disease. They should be helped somewhere. But I'd still like to poke them with a stick.
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One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.
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I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil. I believe this is a big world full of men, women, and children who struggle to eat, to love, to work, to protect their families, their beliefs, and their dreams.
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Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.
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There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice, you've gotta be there, and you've gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.
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If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.
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I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
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Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
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I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
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The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.
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I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.
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Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.
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If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.
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It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
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In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.
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I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
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So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
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The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
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On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.