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I Loved The World Of Oz. I Guess As A Young Man, I Was Just Drawn To Fantasy Worlds. I Liked Being Transported To Alternative Realms Where A Lot Of My Early Imagination Was Sparked.

Almost All The Movies I've Directed Are Adaptations. And I Think What I Found When I Went To Film School, Where They Try To Push You To Find Your Voice Or Your Thing, Is That I Got A Lot Of Things Out Of Adaptations.

My Name Is James Edward Franco. Ted Is A Nickname For Edward. That's What My Parents Called Me. I Also Got 'teddy Ruxpin' A Lot. It Just Got To A Point Where I Got Sick Of It, So When A Teacher Called Out 'james Franco' My Junior Year Of High School, I Didn't Correct Her.

When I Was A Young Actor, I Just Didn’t Understand How To Function In This Business As An Artist. It Is A Business, It’s Called The Film Business For A Reason, There’s Money Involved ... But On The Flip Side, Now I Do Not Let The Business Side Of It Rule Either. It’s A Balance.

I Felt, Implicitly, Or Not So Implicitly, That Subjects About Women And Other Races Were Out Of My Jurisdiction As A Creator. That If I Moved Too Far From My Own Experience, And My Own Established Identity, I Would Be Criticized For Taking Even More Of Those Wedding Pies From Others.