Quote

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.

James Franco

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Think
Voice
Thinking
Found
Adaptations
Film
Adaptation
School
Directed
Find
Push
Thing
Movies
Trying
Went
Things
Almost

More quotes by James Franco

Image
You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women.
James Franco
Image
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
Image
Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.
James Franco
Image
Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
James Franco
Image
I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.
James Franco
Image
I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.
James Franco
Image
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
Image
If many people love me, then I must be important.
James Franco
Image
The first piece of art that I ever bought - when I could afford it - was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.
James Franco
Image
Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.
James Franco
Image
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.
James Franco
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I personally just love movies about the creative process.
James Franco
Image
I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.
James Franco
Image
The hair is really a way to push me even farther out of just what people know me for. I don't really know what people know me for.
James Franco
Image
I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.
James Franco
Image
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
Image
For some reason, when I was in junior high school, my friends and I had, like, a cologne-stealing ring.
James Franco
Image
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