I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.

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

I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal.

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

I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.