James Franco Quotes - Page 6

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• 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.

  James Franco

  Book, One Day, Diaries

  "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.

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• 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.

  James Franco

  Kids, Beer, Long

  "Pineapple Express - James Franco interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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

  James Franco

  Editing, Actors, Filmmaking

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

  James Franco

  Thinking, Self, Casts

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• 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.

  James Franco

  Jobs, Caring, Vanity

  "Andy Warhol's Interview Interview: James Franco". Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 26, 2013.

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• 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.

  James Franco

  School, Years, Two

  "James Franco Talks ‘The Broken Tower’ and Addresses His Critics". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

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

  James Franco

  Kissing, Males, Female

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

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

  James Franco

  School, Juniors, Junior High

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

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

  James Franco

  Hearing, Franco, Critique

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• 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.

  James Franco

  Tired, School, Atmosphere

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

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• 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.

  James Franco

  Nice, Writing, Littles

  James Franco (2014). “Palo Alto: Stories”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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

  James Franco

  Crazy, Stupid, Doe

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

  James Franco

  Character, Practice, Addiction

  "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.

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

  James Franco

  Acting, Film, Reviews

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

  James Franco

  Real, Leading Me

  "James Franco Talks 'The Broken Tower' and Addresses His Critics". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

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

  James Franco

  Book, Collaboration, Alive

  "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.

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• 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.

  James Franco

  Book, Trying, Likes

  "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.

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• 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.

  James Franco

  Ucla, Usc, Students

  "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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

  James Franco

  Moving, Fighting, Looks

  "Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder, Kate Bosworth, Izabela Vidovic and Director Gary Fleder Talk HOMEFRONT, Stunts, Action, Kittens and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 24, 2013.

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• 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.

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• I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

  James Franco

  Acting, Scared, Kind

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• 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.

  James Franco

  Gay, Thinking, Brokeback Mountain

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

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