If this is the only life, then why I’m not just doing everything I want to do.
Most of the books that I’ve adapted I’m doing because I love the book and I feel like it’s a great work of art in itself, and when it’s a great book I feel as a director or a writer that I have a responsibility to rise to the level of the original. It makes me try to reach higher.
Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.
I feel there are so many things in this world that have been and are being created that I could spend the rest of my life thinking about, and I couldn’t cover all the things I’m interested in. That to me is what makes life sweet-learning and exploring.
If I’m working on a film, I’ll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.
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 like, who also are the funniest people around.
When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn’t want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn’t be an actor if I didn’t get the braces. So, I got the braces.
I worked the drive-through at McDonald’s and tried out different accents – Italian, Russian, Irish.
A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers – not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It’s almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.
It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It’s like surrendering to the night or something.
Sometimes I think to myself, what should James Franco say next? And then it comes to me. Boobs.
It’s basically the best job in the world. If you’re fortunate enough – and I consider myself fortunate – you get to work with your friends and you get to work on projects that interest you.
Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don’t know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other’s tapes and find out what each of us was really like.
I don’t like sleeping in a bed.
When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things when I was choosing projects, because one of the biggest creative decisions that an actor can make in the film business is what you will work on.
When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it’s called the film business for a reason, there’s money involved. But on the flip side, nowadays I do not let the business side of it rule either. It’s a balance.
Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.
For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.
I’ve decided I can’t really control people’s perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.
I don’t go on vacation. I don’t really need vacation.