Sean Penn

Psychiatrists have been pushing, pushing, trying to find that capital T trauma in my childhood.

It's not there.

I made every demon door in my life as a young adult and forward.

I did it myself.

My parents were great, loving family.

great brothers.

It was surfing and surfing and surfing and the ocean every day.

And yeah, I've never been embarrassed about that.

I feel lucky as hell about that.

I just, I was confused for a long time.

Why did I want to walk through all the fires I've built?

And, you know, and maybe I still sometimes do, but I had nothing to do with my childhood.

My childhood was, if I had one drawback, a lot of it was spent waiting for it to be over.

And there's a reason for that because of this barbaric enforcement of mandatory schooling in public schools, which stole a lot of my childhood.

I never spent a productive minute in school.

I didn't want to learn until I was older.

I would choose not to if I had to do it over again.

I resent that.

you're miserable, you're stressed, you're exhausted, and you're not in the ocean when there's a great swell because you're in a cement palace with some, you know, shit.

And I hated it.