Sean Penn attacks Hollywood system: “…Penn, 41, who was at the Edinburgh Film Festival for a screening of his new film ‘The Pledge, said anyone was now capable of making a studio movie.

He told reporters he had decided to concentrate on working behind the camera after becoming dismayed at the standard of many of the directors he had worked with.

‘Truly, half the people in this room could work on that level. It takes enormous pressure off to know that if you put two thoughts into your movie, you’re already well up on them. I actually wish I had started sooner’ .” CNN

[Damning himself with faint praise, isn’t he?]