Sean Penn Quotes
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Bukowski said, "I know I'm good, so I like that people think I'm bad, because it gives me a dimension, effortlessly."
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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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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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If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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There's not a lot of good movies being made.
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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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A child gets a fever in the United States and it's high enough and sustainable enough, all of us can bring a child to an emergency room. Most Haitians never had that opportunity. They didn't have the emergency room to bring them to. Virtually every time your child has 102 fever, you wait for it to die and you have no clean water to give it.
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I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.
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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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I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.
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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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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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There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
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If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.
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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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I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.
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The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.
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I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.