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" 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. "
Sean Penn
Real
Try
Best
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" I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them. "
Sean Penn
Smart
Doing
Help
" Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it. "
Sean Penn
Over
Shooting
Time
" I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth. "
Sean Penn
Truth
Know
Being Lied To
" 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
Like
Loan
Back
" I think you start to prepare the minute you read something. "
Sean Penn
Think
Minute
Prepare
" I think we all have light and dark inside us. "
Sean Penn
Dark
Think
Light
" In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. "
Sean Penn
School
Every
Genius
" The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. "
Sean Penn
Different
Acting
Process
" Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. "
Sean Penn
Marriage
Most
Easy
" 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. "
Sean Penn
You
News
Good
" Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that. "
Sean Penn
Doing
People
Many
" So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in. "
Sean Penn
Speak
Society
Own
" I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important. "
Sean Penn
Choose
Speak
Movies
" There's not a lot of good movies being made. "
Sean Penn
Movies
Good
Lot
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Camera
Tolerance
Myself
" We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage. "
Sean Penn
You
Time
Magic
" There is no re-inventing the wheel. "
Sean Penn
Wheel
" In my teens, I fell in love with the movies. "
Sean Penn
Love
Teens
Movies
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Movies
Two
Think
" I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies. "
Sean Penn
Movies
Bad
Good
" Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. "
Sean Penn
Soldiers
American
Innocent
" I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point. "
Sean Penn
Actor
Director
Working
" I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments. "
Sean Penn
Want
Know
Freedom
" Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger. "
Sean Penn
People
Practice
Good
" Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with. "
Sean Penn
More
Aspire
Common Sense
" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "
Sean Penn
Actions
Government
Line
" I am a limousine liberal. "
Sean Penn
Liberal
I Am
Am
" 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. "
Sean Penn
Love
Audience
You
" What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts. "
Sean Penn
Inside
You
Different
" I am a Justin Timberlake fan. "
Sean Penn
Am
I Am
Justin