American - Actor | April 19, 1978 -
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.
James Franco
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I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.
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The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'
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If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.
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I don't like sleeping in a bed.
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I still don't like going to bed alone.
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The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.
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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.
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When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.
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One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.
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If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.
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There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.
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