Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

I become kind of obsessive about research.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

For some reason, when I was in junior high school, my friends and I had, like, a cologne-stealing ring.

Sometimes I get a little sad, and I feel like being alone. Then I talk to my cat about it, and he reminds me I’m James Franco. Then we dance.