I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

I only work with people I trust and respect.

You want to be interesting? Be interested.

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

Life as a performance is just a way to look at life choices as character choices. Every morning you choose what to wear, you choose how to wear your hair, you choose your friends, you more or less choose your profession, and how hard you will work at it. Those are all things that an actor decides about his character when he is performing, and they are things that we decide in life. We create our "character."

This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of this. Stuff like this.

You just don't really rehearse kissing scenes, whether it's male or female.