Art Quote by James Franco
“I was being generous. Gia Coppola wasn't even a filmmaker at that time, but I asked her to do it, because I believed in her as an artist. And because I wanted a woman's take on the material. The book Palo Alto is very male-centric, but Gia carved out a bunch of the female characters, and brought them to the fore in the movie. And the project was richer for it.”
![“I was approached by the filmmakers. I didn't know much about the project ["Selling Isobel"], and the more we talked, the more they started to confide in me. I read the script and thought it was really interesting, and then a week later I discovered that this wasn't just any old script, this was…” quote by Rudolf Buitendach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f46/rudolf-buitendach-44228_felt_i-was-approached-by-the-filmmakers-i-did_550709.jpg)
![“[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission to lose her virginity. That's a mission easily accomplished, if that's the only mission. The story had to be more complicated than that. Because there is so…” quote by Susan Minot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a83/susan-minot-11041_accomplished_the-director-s-idea-for-the-film-was-a-y_1514054.jpg)
![“I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.” quote by James Franco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/099/james-franco-2025_adderall_i-went-to-nyu-graduate-film-school-and-m_32845.jpg)
