Sean Penn
Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, filmmaker, and political activist. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama Mystic Riverand the biopic Milk...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth17 August 1960
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
morning interesting people
When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.
thinking forever soul
I don't think you can get away with putting your talents in a toilet bowl and not having them flushed away. Forever. There is a level of murder of one's soul and of the culture that they're supposed to be feeding vitamins to...
good-movie made
There's not a lot of good movies being made.
writing acting different
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
mistake tolerance nikon
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.
light way made
I can always see light in any situation. It's just the way I'm made.
fulfilling
Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.
real love-is people
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.
mouths said bigs
Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.
thinking involved
On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.
nebraska shooting yeah
Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.
political good-movie envelopes
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.
sacrifice medicine soldier
Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
money buzz needs
All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine