You don't really prepare for a kissing scene.

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.

Over the water of time I call to youIn a language I do not know.

I have a couple of favorite relatives, but because they're so far away I tend to ignore them-even though they have mailboxes, email addresses and telephone numbers. Today, I'll get back in touch.

I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.

They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.

People who ask "Can I ask you a question?" Didn't really give me a choice, did ya there buddy?

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.