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I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
James Franco
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James Franco
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: April 19
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James Edward Franco
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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.
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I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
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Almost all the movies I've directed are adaptations. And I think what I found when I went to film school, where they try to push you to find your voice or your thing, is that I got a lot of things out of adaptations.
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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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If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.
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All I know is that when I needed McDonald’s, McDonald’s was there for me.
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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.
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The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders.
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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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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.
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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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Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.
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I still don't like going to bed alone.
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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'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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My style is casual-chic? Casual-messy?
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If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.
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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.
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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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You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.
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