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James Franco Inspirational Quotes (84)

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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.
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If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.
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Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.
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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.
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You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.
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For some reason, when I was in junior high school, my friends and I had, like, a cologne-stealing ring.
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As an actor in the classroom, you're revealing so much, and teachers are, you know, they're just critiquing like a painting or a piece of work it's like, it's you, and it's your emotions that they're working with.
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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.
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I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.
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The Wolfpack is a real life clash of life and fiction and the saving power of brotherhood and make-believe.
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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.
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Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.
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Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.
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There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is most real and the only way to do that, is to genuinely feel it.
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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.
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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.
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I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.
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Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
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I've come to a point where I just want to do movies that I just believe in. I have come to an understanding of filmmaking, a new understanding where I believe it's a director's medium. That means working with people that I believe in.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.
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I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.
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