London, Oct 17 : Sean Penn has revealed that he finds his past movie career like "a dream" as he's been so focused on the relief effort in Haiti for the past two years.

Penn has set up the `J/P Haitian Relief Organization', which has helped thousands of needy families rebuild their lives, after the devastating earthquake hit the country, in 2010.

Penn has, by then, largely taken a step back from movies to concentrate on the charity and admits that his focus is still on helping Haitians.

"It is very strange now. With Haiti, that experience makes much of my prior career kind of a dream in some ways," The Daily Express quoted him as telling CNN chat show host Piers Morgan.

"And the creative part of it and those things, all of that stuff, I think the part of my brain that used to hold onto it, got filled with this, this other reel, over the last two years somehow," he said.

However, Penn insists that he won't turn his back on a Hollywood career completely.

"I still have a love affair with the movies. I prefer directing movies than to act in movies," he added. (ANI)