230 Quotes by James Franco

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.

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.

I don’t go on vacation. I don’t really need vacation.

The new critique you’re gonna start hearing about James Franco, is ‘He’s spreading himself too thin.’

If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can’t blame somebody for caring about that. It’s part of their job. So it’s vanity but it’s also not in a lot of cases. It’s being professional.

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.

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.

If I’m working on a film, I’ll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

I start movies with people that I believe in and people with visions, you know, that I believe in. And so if it doesn’t kind of come together in the right way, at least I was doing it because I believed in the person and the movie.