I am not going to be the guy who’s not pulling his weight.
Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
It’s hard when you’re doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
I get like six or so hours of sleep a night.
But I don’t want to die! I have so much to do!
I’m a big cardigan sweater guy.
Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it’s more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.
Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.
I worked at a McDonald’s drive-through. I could always tell when girls were interested: They’d drive around again and say, ‘I forgot something.’
I become kind of obsessive about research.
There’s a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is most real and the only way to do that, is to genuinely feel it.
The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders.
I drank from the bottle again and it was a scary plunge because I always wanted to take too much. It hurt, but it was also impressive, like being in the hands of a bigger force. And because of that, a relief.
This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of this. Stuff like this.
When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.
He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.
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.
The new critique you’re gonna start hearing about James Franco, is ‘He’s spreading himself too thin.’
I start movies with people that I believe in and people with visions, you know, that I believe in. And so if it doesn’t kind of come together in the right way, at least I was doing it because I believed in the person and the movie.
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.