CANNES, France, May 18 (UPI) -- Sean Penn, at the Cannes Film Festival promoting his Richard Nixon assassination plot movie, said Hollywood needs to make more political commentaries.
"I don't think there is any art that doesn't respond to the times and I don't think there's enough political films here or anywhere," Penn said, BBC reported Tuesday.
"The politics, as we understand politics to be, are so present in our lives right now that any painting that doesn't reflect it in some ways is dismissible to me," said Penn, who is an outspoken critic of the Iraq war.
"The Assassination of Richard Nixon" is based on the true story of a furniture salesman who plotted to kill President Nixon in 1974 by flying an airliner into the White House, a film that Penn thinks is still relevant.
"Often when people's hearts are oppressed and silenced they will act in extreme and violent and horrible ways," Penn said.
"So I'd like to think ... there will be some thoughts provoked about how to fix the problem before it happens," Penn said.
