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" Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was. "

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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. "

Sean Penn

Director

Movies

Living

" The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus. "

Sean Penn

Loan

Back

" There is no re-inventing the wheel. "

Sean Penn

Wheel

" So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in. "

" At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch. "

" I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it. "

" In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. "

" I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. "

" Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it. "

" 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. "

" In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. "

" 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. "

" You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for. "

" 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. "

" There's not a lot of good movies being made. "

" Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it. "

" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "

" When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself. "

" On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think. "

" I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important. "

" Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it. "

" I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy. "

" I think life's an irrational obsession. "

" Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. "

" There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies. "

" I really love to make movies. "

" I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made. "

" The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that. "

" I am a limousine liberal. "

Sean Penn

Liberal

I Am

" My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple. "