A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.
James FrancoTeens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.
James FrancoWe 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.
James FrancoThere's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let things out. The best acting is that that is most real and the only way to do that, is to genuinely feel it.
James FrancoI was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.
James FrancoI get to work with incredibly talented young filmmakers and students, and their attitudes and relationship with film is still so pure. That re-inspires me and reminds me why I got into it and what I love about film, and allows me a little reprieve from the business side of it. And it rekindles my love of film.
James Franco