Acting with James Franco (2009)

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'James Franco' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Franco, James Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Queen of the Desert

  2015, role: actor , character name: Henry Cadogan
• Play in Full Screen The Interview

  2014, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen The Little Prince

  2014, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen True Story

  2014, role: actor , character name: Christian Longo
• Play in Full Screen Bukowski

  2014, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Holy Land

  2014, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Veronica Mars

  2014, role: actor , character name: James Franco
• Play in Full Screen Yosemite

  2014, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Good People

  2014, role: actor , character name: Tom Reed
• Play in Full Screen Memoria

  2014, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Holy Land

  2014, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Every Thing Will Be Fine

  2014, role: actor , character name: Tomas
• Play in Full Screen Memoria

  2014, role: actor , character name: Mr. Wyckoff
• Play in Full Screen Jesse Heiman: World's Greatest Extra

  2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Labyrinth

  2014, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Labyrinth

  2014, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Bukowski

  2014, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Yosemite

  2014, role: actor , character name: Phil
• Play in Full Screen Acting Class

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Black Dog, Red Dog

  2013, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Child of God

  2013, role: director
• Play in Full Screen As I Lay Dying

  2013, role: actor , character name: Darl Bundren
• Play in Full Screen kink

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen This Is the End

  2013, role: actor , character name: James Franco
• Play in Full Screen Palo Alto

  2013, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Third Person

  2013, role: actor , character name: Rick
• Play in Full Screen kink

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen As I Lay Dying

  2013, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Interior. Leather Bar.

  2013, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Interior. Leather Bar.

  2013, role: actor , character name: James
• Play in Full Screen Palo Alto

  2013, role: actor , character name: Mr. B
• Play in Full Screen Comedy Central Roast of James Franco

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Roastee
• Play in Full Screen As I Lay Dying

  2013, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen XR91 BioRebellion 2.0

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Black Dog, Red Dog

  2013, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Child of God

  2013, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen E! Special: Oz - The Great and Powerful

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Child of God

  2013, role: actor , character name: Jerry
• Play in Full Screen Interior. Leather Bar.

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Sound of Change Live

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Homefront

  2013, role: actor , character name: Morgan 'Gator' Bodine
• Play in Full Screen The Director: An Evolution in Three Acts

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Oz the Great and Powerful

  2013, role: actor , character name: Oz
• Play in Full Screen A Fuller Life

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Reader
• Play in Full Screen Through the Mind's Eye of Colleen Atwood

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Richard Peter Johnson

  2013, role: actor , character name: James Franco
• Play in Full Screen Lovelace

  2013, role: actor , character name: Hugh Hefner
• Play in Full Screen Black Dog, Red Dog

  2013, role: actor , character name: Leo
• Play in Full Screen Venice 70: Future Reloaded

  2013, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by James Franco:

"When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces."

"I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself."

"I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do."

"Um, ... Nobody has a script yet, so..."

"He's a warrior, but everything changes when he meets Isolde."

"Tristan is full of rage at the Irish for taking his family."

"I don't know if I could do it. I have a lot of respect for what they do. The 'Annapolis' consultant told us the biggest challenge for most people is the mental shift that's required to go there. And you really have to leave your ego at the door. You know, it's a really different way of life than most people are used to."

"Both were equally strenuous. I might feel a little sillier swinging the sword, but it's just as hard as boxing. The difference is when you make a mistake in the boxing you just get tapped a little and you shake it off. But with the swords they use real steel. Every actor had cuts on his hands and people get hit on the arms, so it's a little harder."

"A lot of things can be read into it, but essentially it's about the desire to be an artist and what a struggle that is. It's about everything. You've got issues of being a man, finding meaning and the struggle to express oneself. The sad thing is that sometimes someone doesn't really have the talent or the voice to do that."

"As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,"

"I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight."

"Did you ever see Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke? That's what happens if you really smoke weed and make a movie. You get two guys and no plot and it's basically like, 'Yeah! Let's drive a van made of weed!' And that's pretty much the movie."

"If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something."

"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."

"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."

"Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun."

"I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish."

"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."

"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."

"I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA."