230 Quotes by James Franco

It had happened. I had brought the dream out into reality and it had dissolved. It was just a dream and had found no purchase in the real world where it was dependent on other people for its realization. I wished that I could have sucked my words back inside where they had lived a colorful life of promise, had been nurtured by hope, and had never been tested

They say living well is the best revenge but sometimes writing well is even better.

You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.

I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.

The man is angry, the manIs destructive, the man wants more.The woman is more, the woman is all.

All is good. Don't worry, the pain will help you. You'll get into some trouble, but it will work out in the end.

Gay James: Well, why don’t you stop playing games and give us a little of your private self?Straight James: Kind of impossible, don’t you think? As soon as I share it, it becomes public.

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.

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.