The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor.… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did,… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
If there's anything disgusting in the movie business, it is the whoredom of my peers. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up, Madonna developed… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
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. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as a different guy than I was ten years ago. I don't have aspirations to be. It's really about where… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want to feel… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image