A biography for Sean Pennhasn’t been written yet.
“I am a Justin Timberlake fan.”
“I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.”
“You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.”
“When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.”
“We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.”
“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.”
“'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.”
“Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.”
“The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.”
“I really love to make movies.”
“On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think.”
“Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.”
“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.”
“So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.”
“Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.”
“I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.”
“I'm not a breakfast eater.”
“Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.”
“I just want real creative freedom without worrying about, you know, car payments.”
“I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.”