I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.

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.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Billy Joel is an incredible musician. He just feels like one of the guys, you know. I grew up listening to his music.

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA.

I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

I rarely do autograph shows. Maybe two or three a year. Just to keep my price up. Also I've got too much other stuff to do. I have to teach Renaissance art.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

Sometimes dead wasn’t dead enough.’ – Sundown

Genius awaits him who listens. The messages of genius are for the Soul of man. The senses of man comprehend them not.