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.
Sean PennThe major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.
Sean PennI've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
Sean PennI don't want to lie, play games, hurt somebody, or get hurt. You can only go forward in one direction.
Sean PennOne of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.
Sean Penn