Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.

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.

All I know is that when I needed McDonald’s, McDonald’s was there for me.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

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.

The selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, 'Hello, this is me.'

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

I am very grateful for my life. I think one of the keys to not being depressed is to find gratitude and to be grateful for what you have. So I am grateful for what I have.

You want to be interesting? Be interested.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

Analyze and correct your past mistakes before they paralyze your future! An undiscovered error will always crave for repetition. Kick out errors

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists.

If and when I decide to retire I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.

I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

The PC is the LSD of the '90s.

I always make mistakes and I always fix things up, as best I can, in the cutting room.

In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.