The hair is really a way to push me even farther out of just what people know me for. I don't really… — 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
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
Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power. — James Franco Copy Share Image
Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it. — James Franco Copy Share Image
I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and… — 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
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 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
...it can be so boring being you sometimes, and if you were the most special thing like that, it could be really… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as… — 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
A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service,… — James Franco Copy Share Image
We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain… — James Franco Copy Share Image
There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much… — James Franco Copy Share Image
There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot… — James Franco Copy Share Image
In any creative endeavor, you do have to sort of take your shots. Nobody is going to beg you to go into… — James Franco Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I thought, 'Ok, I'm supposed to do this project because it'll help my career,' but that didn't work… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Quite Franc-ly, I think I am an asset to this world we live in. I know that if I didn’t exist, there… — 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
