Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.
James Franco
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
James Franco
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: April 19
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Writer
Palo Alto
California
James Edward Franco
Direction
Lead
Writer
Another
Real
Would
More quotes by James Franco
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
My style is casual-chic? Casual-messy?
James Franco
I view filmmaking as a director's medium.
James Franco
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.
James Franco
Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.
James Franco
I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.
James Franco
I still don't like going to bed alone.
James Franco
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.
James Franco
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
There's no relationship that I find that's closer than a creative relationship.
James Franco
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
James Franco
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.'
James Franco
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
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
You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women.
James Franco
I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.
James Franco
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
I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
James Franco
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
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.
James Franco
