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.

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.

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.

My "me" is God nor do I recognize any other "me" except my God himself.

I think the best person in her [Hillary Clinton's] campaign is mainstream media.

Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and I'm back.

It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.