Sean Penn Quotes
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Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.
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Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want to feel your life while you're living it?" You know, there's somewhere to go that was here before we were and is going to be here after us, so get out there in it. It doesn't take somebody who's got some self-important sense of their own attachment to nature to recognise that you're just stupid if you don't go out there.
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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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The heartbreak that it might not happen wasn't something that I wanted to face with any more weight. Then, when I got the call to go ahead I never thought for a second as I was approaching it who I would get - that would come later. Again, I think the idea was that I now had the rights to make the movie and I can start writing it but if I have to wait another 10 years before I find an actor that's right for it, I'd be very happy to do that.
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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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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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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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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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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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There's not a lot of good movies being made.
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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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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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You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.
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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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The first instinct is love.
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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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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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If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.
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The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
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Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.
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I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
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I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.
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I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.
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I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.