“Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want to feel your life while you're living it?" You know, there's somewhere to go that was here before we were and is going to be here after us, so get out there in it. It doesn't take somebody who's got some self-important sense of their own attachment to nature to recognise that you're just stupid if you don't go out there.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsWellsKindMeanImportantSelfAliveStupidAttachmentRecogniseStaying Alive Author:Sean Penn
“It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural world that happens to be particular to a sense of wherever my storytelling inclinations come from and my own history of kind of being a road rat and travelling.” WorldKindMeanCountryFeelingsHappensMovingNaturalMy OwnParticularStorytellingRatsInclinationNatural WorldForeground Author:Sean Penn
“Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law.” KindProblemLawTermChallengesSecurityAcceptableRule Of LawHaiti Author:Sean Penn
“There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.” KindUnderstoodForgivingAcceptedLoyaltyAwfulInherentReconciliation Author:Sean Penn
“You need governance, but you also need a middle class, you need agriculture, they need to be able to export. I think that's probably the biggest issue, the job creation that could come with the kinds of things that Haiti has all the potential in the world to export.” ThinkingWorldNeedsKindAbleJobsClassIssuesMiddleCreationMiddle ClassAgricultureGovernanceHaitiJob Creation Author:Sean Penn
“If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.” HeartKindResponse Author:Sean Penn
“It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.” KindMagicInnocence Author:Sean Penn
“I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. I wonder if there should be some kind of anarchy.” IfsShouldKindMomentsHouseInterestWonderMy FamilyAnarchyBurnedLiberating Author:Sean Penn
