My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.

I think all great comedies - or at least the comedies I like - it has some of the funniest moments, but it never breaks the spell for the audience. It never pushes the audience away by spoofing itself too much or undermining the characters or making them cardboard or flimsy. Everybody is really trying to do what their characters believe in - and so nobody breaks the spell of the world, even though in other ways it's a comedy and very funny.

The hair is really a way to push me even farther out of just what people know me for. I don't really know what people know me for.

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.

Japanese moe relationships socially dysfunctional men develop deep attachments to body pillows with women painted on them.

The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.