My Name Is James Edward Franco. Ted

In A Movie, A Book, Or A Play, A Character Doesn't Live In A Vacuum. She Is Subject To Pressures From The World Outside Of Her, Just Like We Are In Life. These Pressures And Circumstances Shape Character. Who Your Parents Are Determines Your Genetic Make Up: Your Skin Color, Your Sex, Your Height, Weight. Where You Are Raised Does Affect Your Worldview Either Positively Or Negatively, Your Accent. Your Economic Class Affects Where You Go To School, What You Eat, Where You Sleep.

Adapting A Book Is Essentially A Collaboration, Whether The Author Is Alive Or Dead.

Always Have One Artistic Thing That Is Pure, At Least One Thing, Where You Don’t Compromise. You Can Do Other Things To Make Money, But Have One Pure Area.

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.

The First Piece Of Art That I Ever Bought - When I Could Afford It - Was A Warhol Sketch From The Period When He Was Just Getting Out Of Doing Commercial Work And More Into Art. It's A Sketch Of A Young Guy's Face. I Guess The Gallery That I Bought It From Thought I Would Like It Because The Young Guy Kind Of Looked Like James Dean.