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.

I start movies with people that I believe in and people with visions, you know, that I believe in. And so if it doesn't kind of come together in the right way, at least I was doing it because I believed in the person and the movie.

The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'

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.

Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.

If this is the only life, then why I’m not just doing everything I want to do.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.