There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
Sean PennThat on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
Sean PennWell, it was interesting because when I was going to do it the first time in my head was Leonardo DiCaprio [for Chris] and Marlon Brando was going to play the character that Hal Holbrook eventually played. But then when it wasn't to be and there was no promise that it ever would be I think some part of me didn't want to attach specifics to it anymore - actors or anything else - because I wanted to see it made that much more badly.
Sean Penn