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
across directors lucky rare stumble
These are the rare directors who come along, and you're lucky if you stumble across one as an actor.
directors few spending watching
There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
direct miss versus
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.
direct five movies
I think it's much more important to direct movies but if it's going to take five years between each one then I'll have to make up for that.
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If I win the lottery, I'm gonna direct three to four pictures every four to five years, instead of one - and there won't be time to act.
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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.
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I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
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I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
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There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
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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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Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.
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tearing oneself apart for the amusement of the audience.
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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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I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.