James Franco
James Franco
James Edward Franco is an American actor and filmmaker. His first prominent acting role was the lead character Daniel Desario on the short-lived cult hit television program Freaks and Geeks. He later played the title character in the TV biographical film James Dean, for which he won a Golden Globe Award. For his role in 127 Hours, Franco was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He is also known for his roles in Spider-Man, Pineapple Express, Rise of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth19 April 1978
CityPalo Alto, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I personally just love movies about the creative process.
I was kind of scared of failing at acting.
I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
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 view filmmaking as a director's medium.
I don't go on vacation. I don't really need vacation.
We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened.
I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.
Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
I get like six or so hours of sleep a night.
But I don't want to die! I have so much to do!
I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.