I still work really hard, but I like to think I'm a little smarter about at least the type of movie I'm getting into.

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.

And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything is given to us, in abundance. Everything: meaning the intensity of presence itself.

I hold the key to his heart right here." He lifted a briefcase from his side to show her. "All we have to do is wind it up again.

Aging masters emotions, but with experiences of aging

Doctors are allowed to practice medicine. What are you called when you are not practicing any more and finally know what your doing?

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

You know, dulceata, there are times when I truly believe you are the most frightening person I know. Thank you?

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

I think it will be, as always, interesting to compare different portrayals of Hitchcock. I'm very honored that I'm playing the same part as Anthony Hopkins.