1 think, you know, if the right project kind of came along that I would be able to direct, I would love to do that.
At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch.
But I'm never again going to do a movie as an actor where I'm enjoying myself. It's not fun, and it doesn't have to be.
Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.
Directors like Alejandro come along very rarely, and you're very lucky if you stumble across one in your life as an actor.
I appreciate words, and I appreciate acting, so combining those elements into a film is the ultimate act of appreciation.
I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.
I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.
I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
I really love to make 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.
I think life's an irrational obsession.
I think that any time you really concentrate, there's a certain amount of adrenaline rush, yeah.
I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.
I think that you become a bit enlightened to the concerns of the filmmaking process more when you direct.
I think we all have light and dark inside us.
I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.
I wanted to come to Iraq and see Iraqi faces - children, adults, diplomats, anybody that implies - and go home with some impressions that will not let me off the hook. . . . It's not abstract anymore.
I'm a little bit computer illiterate.
I'm not a breakfast eater.
I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.
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.
If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.
In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
It varies from role to role and the type of the piece and the people you're working with. All those factors contribute to how you function on a movie.
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.
Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.
My daughter is changing so rapidly now that her likes are different every day, and I love being involved with that.
My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.
Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.
On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.
Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
So, if you're an artist who is in it just for the money, I would be against you.
Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me.
That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
There is no re-inventing the wheel.
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
There's not a lot of good movies being made.
There's the death penalty as society deals with it and legislates it, and I'm against it.
There've been a couple of times when I've gotten the offer to do the odd one that'll make the bank big forever.
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.
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.
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.
Whenever I've been on the other side of the law, as it were, I've never conspired to do malice toward somebody, so I didn't feel like now the shoe was on the other foot or anything like that.
Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.
Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.
You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.
His brother Chris died on January 24, 2006.
He was briefly engaged to actress/photographer Pamela Springsteen. She is the sister of Bruce Springsteen. Sean and Pamela were both cast in the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
He is the only actor to ever receive a Best Actor nomination for a Woody Allen film besides Allen himself.
His brother Michael Penn is a musician.
His brother Chris is also a actor.
Sean was listed as one of the twelve "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36.
In November 1993, he and his wife lost their home in Malibu because of a fire.
He served 32 days in jail in 1987 for hitting an extra.
He is married to Robin Wright Penn. They have been married for 9 years. The have two chilren together.
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