I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.
James FrancoI hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby.
James FrancoDirecting, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
James FrancoThere's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is most real and the only way to do that, is to genuinely feel it.
James FrancoI was being generous. Gia Coppola wasn't even a filmmaker at that time, but I asked her to do it, because I believed in her as an artist. And because I wanted a woman's take on the material. The book Palo Alto is very male-centric, but Gia carved out a bunch of the female characters, and brought them to the fore in the movie. And the project was richer for it.
James Franco