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

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

I don't like sleeping in a bed.

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 get to work with incredibly talented young filmmakers and students, and their attitudes and relationship with film is still so pure. That re-inspires me and reminds me why I got into it and what I love about film, and allows me a little reprieve from the business side of it. And it rekindles my love of film.

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.

I still work really hard, but I like to think I'm a little smarter about at least the type of movie I'm getting into.