James Franco Quotes
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My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.
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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.
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Of course there are some actors that are better than others and performances that are better than others, but they're always embedded in the greater film. They are mediated through the work of so many other people: the director directs, the lighter sets the scene, the editors edit, the music gets put to it.
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I still don't like going to bed alone.
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I become kind of obsessive about research.
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I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.
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The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.
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I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.
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One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.
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Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my bounds, I tried to control things that were out of my purview as an actor and in some cases even tried to direct my scenes because I felt I knew how they should run rather than trust the director.
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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.
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The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'
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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.
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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.
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Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
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I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
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I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.
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In the end, I do have a group of friends and teachers whose opinions I respect, and so I guess I just have to be content with their feedback.
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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.
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I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.
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But I don't want to die! I have so much to do!
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When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that's the number one priority.
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When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.
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It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.