Latest James Franco Quotes from Interviews

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• Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.

  James Franco

  Over You

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby.

  James Franco

  Baby, Hate, Makeup

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance, because in the scene I'm really mad.

  James Franco

  Art, Mad, Scene

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I wanted to do serious movies. I had a certain idea of what good acting was. That's since changed, and I love doing comedies now. I don't like a lot of those movies now, but I thought those were movies that I could do real, serious performances in.

  James Franco

  Real, Acting, Serious

  Source: www.elle.com

• I only work with people I trust and respect.

  James Franco

  People

  Source: www.elle.com

• I could have a sex change and become a woman, physically. But in some ways that isn't even necessary. Because we live in a time when real life, and virtual life are at parity. We are so used to being creators, and creating versions of ourselves, mainly online, and through our communication technology, that I could very well picture myself as a woman, and consider myself a woman, even if my body would be classified as a male body by a medical examiner.

  James Franco

  Real, Communication, Technology

  Source: i-d.vice.com

• 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.

  James Franco

  Book, Character, Artist

  Source: i-d.vice.com

• I felt, implicitly, or not so implicitly, that subjects about women and other races were out of my jurisdiction as a creator. That if I moved too far from my own experience, and my own established identity, I would be criticized for taking even more of those wedding pies from others.

  James Franco

  Identity, Moved

  Source: i-d.vice.com

• I wouldn't want to live life in an untroubled garden, blissful and ignorant. I would want to get out into the world, and be a part of something. In a way I was born into the Garden of Eden, or as close as you can get in our world; I was born white, male, and in Palo Alto. I had it pretty kush.

  James Franco

  Live Life, Garden, Ignorant

  Source: i-d.vice.com

• Anyone has outside influences. They are the results of the cosmic roll of the dice: this person is born Aragon the Ranger, this person is born a prisoner in North Korea, this person is born Carlos the Dwarf. Some of these things are out of our control, but that doesn't mean that they can't be changed. A character, just like a person in real life, is a summation of her actions and feelings. Our actions and emotions are not performed against nothing, they do not arise from dust, we are in constant friction, and/or flow with our surroundings.

  James Franco

  Real, Character, Mean

  Source: i-d.vice.com

• Boys and girls were both created with given attributes, and given the freedom to act and react. But Adam was allowed to name all the animals, and Eve was made from Adam's rib, as a companion for him. No wonder she ate the apple, she was rebelling against a world where everything was stacked against her. She was just a prop to make Adam happy.

  James Franco

  Girl, Animal, Boys

  Source: i-d.vice.com

• In a movie, a book, or a play, a character doesn't live in a vacuum. She is subject to pressures from the world outside of her, just like we are in life. These pressures and circumstances shape character. Who your parents are determines your genetic make up: your skin color, your sex, your height, weight. Where you are raised does affect your worldview either positively or negatively, your accent. Your economic class affects where you go to school, what you eat, where you sleep.

  James Franco

  Book, School, Character

  Source: i-d.vice.com

• Life as a performance is just a way to look at life choices as character choices. Every morning you choose what to wear, you choose how to wear your hair, you choose your friends, you more or less choose your profession, and how hard you will work at it. Those are all things that an actor decides about his character when he is performing, and they are things that we decide in life. We create our "character."

  James Franco

  Morning, Character, Choices

  Source: i-d.vice.com

• There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school.

  James Franco

  Suicide, Running, School

  Source: i-d.vice.com

• Men in your position have women offering themselves in the hopes that they will get somewhere professionally, or socially.

  James Franco

  Men

  Source: i-d.vice.com

• The number of women in power positions is a fraction of the number of men in such positions.

  James Franco

  Men

  Source: i-d.vice.com

• You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women.

  James Franco

  Source: i-d.vice.com

• The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.

  James Franco

  World, Fame

  Source: i-d.vice.com

• The hair is really a way to push me even farther out of just what people know me for. I don't really know what people know me for.

  James Franco

  People, Know Me

  Source: www.hollywood.com

• You're a white male living in America, brought up in one of the richest cities in the county, Palo Alto. You went to high school with Steve Jobs' daughter, and your journalism teacher is the mother-in-law of Sergey, co-founder of Google.

  James Franco

  Daughter, Teacher, School

  Source: i-d.vice.com

• In any creative endeavor, you do have to sort of take your shots. Nobody is going to beg you to go into the creative arts. So, if you want to pursue a career in something like acting or writing, the motor and the drive have to come from you. And that does take courage because, A, a lot of people want to do it, and B, it's hard. So, you have to have the guts to put yourself out there and go for it in spite of the world saying, "You know, it would be so much easier, if you didn't pursue this." So, it does take guts.

  James Franco

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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

  James Franco

  Focus, Quirky, Plot

  "James Franco’s Movie Column: Civil War Meets Mumblecore in ‘Men Go To Battle’". www.indiewire.com. July 7, 2016.

• 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.

  James Franco

  Jobs, Best Job, World

  "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky on Drugs, S&M, and The Adderall Diaries". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2016.

• I actually don't smoke weed, but I've played a lot of stoners - especially with Seth Rogen.

  James Franco

  Weed, Smoke Weed, Stoners

  "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky on Drugs, S&M, and The Adderall Diaries". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2016.

• 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.

  James Franco

  Attitude, Inspire, Littles

  "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky on Drugs, S&M, and The Adderall Diaries". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2016.