You're a white male living in America, brought up in one of the richest cities in the county, Palo Alto. You went to high school with Steve Jobs' daughter, and your journalism teacher is the mother-in-law of Sergey, co-founder of Google.

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.

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal.

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

I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.

I become kind of obsessive about research.