I got arrested for graffiti. I got arrested - a lot of, like, underage drinking, drunk in public, shoplifting, you know, your various, like, suburban arrests, I guess.

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."

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

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

There's so much pressure put on relationships to deliver the satisfaction of life. And to me, that is just not the answer. I feel like it should be something in addition to what you love or be a part of that.

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

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.