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

For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.

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.

When I read the book [The Adderall Diaries] I loved it, and I maybe had an inkling that there was a lot of good material in there. I didn't quite know at the time how to adapt it into a film, but I hoped I would figure it out one day.

We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened.

The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders.

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.