Sean Penn Direct Quotations

These are the rare directors who come along, and you're lucky if you stumble across one as an actor.

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.

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.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

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.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

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.