Sean Penn Quotes
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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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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 don't want to lie, play games, hurt somebody, or get hurt. You can only go forward in one direction.
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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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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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When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.
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If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.
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My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
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I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board.
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Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.
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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.
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I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.
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I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
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As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even foreign workers driving through, we have had very minimal security issues.
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Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.
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My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.
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The first instinct is love.
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You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.
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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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When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.
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I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution.
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The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
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When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.
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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.