I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot of it does involve some aspect of me, they find it self-aggrandizing. But there’s a long tradition of artists using themselves. Look, I know I’m not perfect. And, who knows, maybe a part of it has to do with self-obsession. But it’s also about using this weird thing that is a public persona as raw material for creative projects.

I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot of it does involve some aspect of me, they find it self-aggrandizing. But there’s a long tradition of artists using themselves. Look, I know I’m not perfect. And, who knows, maybe a part of it has to do with self-obsession. But it’s also about using this weird thing that is a public persona as raw material for creative projects.

I don't like sleeping in a bed.

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.

Sometimes I think to myself, what should James Franco say next? And then it comes to me. Boobs.

I don't consider weed to be any worse than having a beer.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.