Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing. — 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'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 teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects… — 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
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
I wanted to do serious movies. I had a certain idea of what good acting was. That's since changed, and I love… — 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
Painting is wonderful because its so private. Youre not beholden to a director or a producer. But acting has been really saving… — 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
It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv. — James Franco Copy Share Image
Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor. — 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
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
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
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 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 Image
Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing. — 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 had the… — James Franco Copy Share Image
I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything. — James Franco Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 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 people I… — James Franco Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
