230 Quotes by James Franco

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.

Did you ever see Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke? That's what happens if you really smoke weed and make a movie. You get two guys and no plot and it's basically like, 'Yeah! Let's drive a van made of weed!' And that's pretty much the movie.

I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.

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.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

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.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

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.

My job is what I love. I don't need an escape from it.