186 Quotes by Sean Penn

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.

If there's anything disgusting in the movie business, it is the whoredom of my peers.

I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

In my teens, I fell in love with the movies.

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.

I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema.

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

'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to write the thing, I had all the pictures in my head.