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

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
Sean Penn

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
Sean Penn

Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.
Sean Penn

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
Sean Penn

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
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

There is no re-inventing the wheel.
Sean Penn

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
Sean Penn

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

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.
Sean Penn

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 482 times.
Sean Penn

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

Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.
Sean Penn

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
Sean Penn

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.
Sean Penn