Film Quotes by Sean Penn

I really love to make movies.

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be…

— Sean Penn

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a…

— Sean Penn

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

— Sean Penn

If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart…

— Sean Penn

When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like…

— Sean Penn

In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me…

— Sean Penn

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…

— Sean Penn

A lot of critics sometimes get into analyzing the way actors direct versus non-actors directing. And they really always miss it. It's…

— Sean Penn

Whatever I was able to do with those experiences certainly contribute to whatever I'm able to do as a director. The corruption…

— Sean Penn

A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly,…

— Sean Penn