I have a lot of books optioned. This one sat around for a while - part of that was just because I was trying to figure it out, and I didn't realize I needed Pam to figure it out - but I'm not somebody that likes to option books and then sit on them.

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

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."

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.

Sometimes I think to myself, what should James Franco say next? And then it comes to me. Boobs.

I personally just love movies about the creative process.

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