American - Actor | August 17, 1960 -
In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.
Sean Penn
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Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They're all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger.
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I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important.
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Craft comes into acting later rather than sooner. I was somebody who had to learn through a process - a natural actor doesn't need to.
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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.
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'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.
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I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.
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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.
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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.
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The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
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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.
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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.
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