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.

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

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

You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

I've come to a point where I just want to do movies that I just believe in. I have come to an understanding of filmmaking, a new understanding where I believe it's a director's medium. That means working with people that I believe in.