James Franco Quotes - Page 6

When I read the book [The Adderall Diaries] I loved it, and I maybe had an inkling that there was a lot of good material in there. I didn't quite know at the time how to adapt it into a film, but I hoped I would figure it out one day.

There's a long tradition of teen comedies where the kids are getting drunk on beer and whatever else, so smoking a joint to me is no worse than having a beer. So, if someone has a problem with it, I'll just tell them to relax.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

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 job. So it's vanity but it's also not in a lot of cases. It's being professional.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

You just don't really rehearse kissing scenes, whether it's male or female.

For some reason, when I was in junior high school, my friends and I had, like, a cologne-stealing ring.

The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'

I learned a lot of good things in my school. I've audited a lot of other schools, and I guess after a while I got a little tired of the acting school atmosphere.

I always see nice images like that but I don't know what to do with them. I guess you share them with someone. Or you write them down in a poem. I had so many of those little images, but I never shared them or wrote any of them down.

When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

I have a lot of books optioned. This one sat around for a while - part of that was just because I was trying to figure it out, and I didn't realize I needed Pam to figure it out - but I'm not somebody that likes to option books and then sit on them.

I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.

I get to work with incredibly talented young filmmakers and students, and their attitudes and relationship with film is still so pure. That re-inspires me and reminds me why I got into it and what I love about film, and allows me a little reprieve from the business side of it. And it rekindles my love of film.

Fight scenes are really more like dances than they are fights, because you're depending on your partner to do the right move at the right time. Yes, a tough person or somebody who knows what they're doing will look better in a fight scene, but it also has a lot to do with the other person.

It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

I think as far as straight actors playing gay roles, "Brokeback Mountain" was a big breakthrough. I'm pretty sure when they were casting that movie that - I think the story is, like you know, 10 to 15 other actors turned it down.