I actually don’t smoke weed, but I’ve played a lot of stoners – especially with Seth Rogen.
I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I’ve actually been painting longer than I’ve been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.
My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That’s what my parents called me. I also got ‘Teddy Ruxpin’ a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out ‘James Franco’ my junior year of high school, I didn’t correct her.
Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.
When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.
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.
I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn’t go in if I was working on my own.
School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.
I’m starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I’m going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.
I am actually turned off when I look at an account and don’t see any selfies, because I want to know whom I’m dealing with. In our age of social networking, the selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, ‘Hello, this is me.’
I personally just love movies about the creative process.
We fell in love last night. He’s the coolest guy.
I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.
If many people love me, then I must be important.
We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we’re all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened.
Sometimes rabbits, like, turn me on. I don’t know why.
If liking Katy Perry and drinking margaritas is gay, then who wants to be straight?!
I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.
You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.
I was kind of scared of failing at acting.