The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects… — James Franco Copy Share Image
“In the movie of your entire life, do you want drama and conflict or a straight shot to the top, unencumbered?” — James Franco Copy Share Image
When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to… — James Franco Copy Share Image
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were. — James Franco Copy Share Image
I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film… — James Franco Copy Share Image
It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv. — James Franco Copy Share Image
Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing. — James Franco Copy Share Image
Of course there are some actors that are better than others and performances that are better than others, but they're always embedded… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I get to work with incredibly talented young filmmakers and students, and their attitudes and relationship with film is still so pure.… — James Franco Copy Share Image
When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I start movies with people that I believe in and people with visions, you know, that I believe in. And so if… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she… — James Franco Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire… — James Franco Copy Share Image
We all age. You shouldn't discount it as a subject for a film. Just because the characters are dealing with issues that… — James Franco Copy Share Image
There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not. — James Franco Copy Share Image
If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something. — James Franco Copy Share Image
I still work really hard, but I like to think I'm a little smarter about at least the type of movie I'm… — James Franco Copy Share Image
When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short… — James Franco Copy Share Image
A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Almost all the movies I've directed are adaptations. And I think what I found when I went to film school, where they… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching… — James Franco Copy Share Image
When I read the book [The Adderall Diaries] I loved it, and I maybe had an inkling that there was a lot… — James Franco Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I've come to a point where I just want to do movies that I just believe in. I have come to an… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as… — James Franco Copy Share Image
When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through… — James Franco Copy Share
Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing. — James Franco Copy Share
I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the… — James Franco Copy Share
I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything. — James Franco Copy Share
I hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby. — James Franco Copy Share
Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money,… — James Franco Copy Share
I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I… — James Franco Copy Share
In a movie, a book, or a play, a character doesn't live in a vacuum. She is subject to pressures from the world outside… — James Franco Copy Share
Anyone has outside influences. They are the results of the cosmic roll of the dice: this person is born Aragon the Ranger, this person… — James Franco Copy Share
If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part of their… — James Franco Copy Share
Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about, and if… — James Franco Copy Share
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