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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. "

Sean Penn

Soldiers

American

Innocent

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" I really love to make movies. "

" There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged. "

" I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his 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. "

" 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

Aspire

Common Sense

" In my teens, I fell in love with the movies. "

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

" That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. "

" Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to. "

" I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times. "

" 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. "

" I think life's an irrational obsession. "

" 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. "

" Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that. "

" The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. "

" Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things. "

" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "

" I'm not a breakfast eater. "

Sean Penn

Eater

Breakfast

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. "

" I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. "

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

" 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

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

" I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema. "

" I am a limousine liberal. "

Sean Penn

Liberal

I Am

" A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's one of those things where, by not being practitioners, they just came up with something that made sense to them. "

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