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" 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
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it. "
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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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" There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that. "
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" Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. "
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Stop
Walking
" 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. "
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" At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch. "
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" 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. "
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Know
Being Lied To
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Movies
Make
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