James Franco
Related BILL HADER Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collectio... OZWALD BOATENG DAVID CRONENBERG QUENTIN TARANTINO MIKE BIRBIGLIA SARAH GADON ALDEN EHRENREICH BRYAN SINGER BILL PLYMPTON BRYAN SINGER I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first sh... JASON REITMAN ANDY SERKIS I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting aro... NATALIA TENA RUBY ROSE People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the wee... CARLO PONTI I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all... SATYAJIT RAY When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head ... BRUCE WEBER In 1993, my first documentary was about the civil war in Algeria. That was in French and in Arabic. ... LUCA GUADAGNINO You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the pla... BARRY JENKINS DAVID CRONENBERG SANDRA OH GAEL GARCIA BERNAL Three years ago I had a vision about doing a film that talked about entertainment in Hong Kong - I s... ANDREW LIN I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and... THEO JAMES When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability... ADAM RAPP MIKE BIRBIGLIA DAVID A. R. WHITE NICK PARK BILL PLYMPTON I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. M... JASON REITMAN Consistency is very important when you're making films. IAN MCDIARMID This is a continuation of what I started two years ago with 'Don Giovanni.' I want to continue this ... JOEL ROSENBERG It's been two years since we filmed the three Rings films. It was like stepping back in time when I ... BILLY BOYD RANDEEP HOODA When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary fil... TONY KAYE But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either i... PATRICK MARBER Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do o... DUNCAN JONES When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United Sta... ALEX GIBNEY BRIT MARLING PARK CHAN-WOOK Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay ... JOSEPH KOSINSKI When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element. BRETT RATNER After 'Chandni Bar' there was a shutdown of such bars in Mumbai. After 'Page 3' peop... MADHUR BHANDARKAR But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. ... JANE CAMPION Short films don't go too far. MATTHEW MCGRORY MARSHALL CURRY DAVID THEWLIS I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films. TED KOTCHEFF WONG KAR-WAI He's a great person. He has helped us so much this year. You can see a difference from when I first ... CARLOS RIVERA WES CRAVEN EDGAR WRIGHT It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was... PAM GRIER We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films. EMMA THOMAS I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships. YASH CHOPRA GARY KEMP I started about two and a half years ago because my daughter wanted to come skating. MAUREEN BERK ANURAG KASHYAP TOM BRADY Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and gett... TOM VERICA My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no i... RANI MUKERJI BILL HADER PETER DAVISON I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, ... BARRY JENKINS Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film,... MIKE FIGGIS BRYAN MILLER I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was n... EVAN DAUGHERTY When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwo... SAFFRON BURROWS DREW GODDARD MIKE BIRBIGLIA When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the y... K. FLAY When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortun... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU GUY PEARCE Life is short. If I didn't have the defibrillator, I would have been dead at the Christmas party thr... JOY DENEEN I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about the... DANNY BOYLE STEPHEN KING I love games, and I feel they've been sold short shrift in films so far. DUNCAN JONES BILL NIGHY VIN DIESEL WHIT STILLMAN When I'm actually making a film and trying to find solutions, I like to watch making-of document... PHILIPPE FALARDEAU ROBERT STERNBERG I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one k... MADHUR BHANDARKAR PRIYANKA CHOPRA For years I would turn to James Joyce's short story collection, The Dubliners, in the Performance of... FRANK GALATI When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't... JESSY SCHRAM In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you... ERIC DICKERSON JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME Her short game was really on today. The last time she played this course two years ago, she also bro... GARY GAVETTE DAN SIMMONS After I left that, I wanted to continue programming films, so I started the Jewish film festival. JOSHUA ABBEY My dream is to become a director. I want to direct a Hindi film. I have two scripts ready. One of th... DHANUSH AARON NEVILLE Movies about movies play really, really well at film festivals because the people who go to festival... CHRIS LAMONT I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little... JAMES ROLLINS CHRISTOPHER GUEST ARJUN KAPOOR I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend ... ALEXIS DENISOF EDGAR WRIGHT Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to ... DANNY GLOVER
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DAVE FRANCO Pain and grief have been kept buried for ages, bred in secrecy and shame, wrapped by an ongoing cons... FRANCO SANTORO What really keeps me inspired is to get messages across. ALVIN FRANCO Everyone you've ever met is actually a part of who you are today. Even your own enemies, the ones wh... ALVIN FRANCO It's really amazing what a single act of kindness can do. Well, it's gotten me to be a lot more soci... ALVIN FRANCO It's basically my own life story as of high school. ALVIN FRANCO I'm always busy filming something -- I document everything I do, I've found out that I can put it to... ALVIN FRANCO It's like a separate body part to me, you can ask anyone in my school, they've never seen me not wit... ALVIN FRANCO Economists agree about economics - and that's a science - and they disagree about economic polic... FRANCO MODIGLIANI [You] have to play good, too. CARLOS FRANCO I like to play the golf course because when I go to the range, I hit it, I hit it, I hit it, every s... CARLOS FRANCO It's like a holiday, a vacation almost. CARLOS FRANCO He's a big guy, you know? ... I talked to him the last 18 holes, 'Come on, man, come on. Why you too... CARLOS FRANCO That's good for me, CARLOS FRANCO My eyes are very red. I can't play. I can't focus on the ball. I can't focus on my swing. CARLOS FRANCO He wasn't nervous because he's won three times on the Nationwide Tour. CARLOS FRANCO I like the course. A little tricky fairways and greens, that's good for everybody because when you h... CARLOS FRANCO The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. Th... FRANCO MOSCHINO How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you befo... FRANCO HARRIS While the Index remains below its pre-Katrina levels, the shock of the hurricanes and subsequent lea... LYNN FRANCO Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it. FRANCO MOSCHINO Once consumers file online, they tend to stay online. The number of people filing their federal taxe... LYNN FRANCO Never underestimate the power of one man JOSELUIS FRANCO strive to be something more, and you will change the world JOSELUIS FRANCO One day I will stand where emperors once stood JOSELUIS FRANCO When your dreams become reality, then you know you've changed the world JOSELUIS FRANCO At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall... DAVE FRANCO Politics is not a career. Politics is a service, a mission. If I am to choose between a decision tha... FRANCO DEBONO Let go of your constant strife to sustain and assert the idea of who you are. It is this massive eff... FRANCO SANTORO I did not invent these figures. It did not come from me. What do I have to gain if I lie? FRANCO TITO They said they have no special suits and equipment to battle the thick smoke and toxic fumes from in... FRANCO TITO The swift outcome in the Middle East has helped quell consumers' short-term concerns. While an incre... LYNN FRANCO We take full account of two main, fundamental rights -- the right to security .... and privacy prote... FRANCO FRATTINI I don't just wanna be James Franco's little brother. DAVE FRANCO For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don't take for granted. It'... DAVE FRANCO The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: masonry and... FRANCISCO FRANCO As much as I love and respect my brother, I'm doing my best to distance myself from him and kind... DAVE FRANCO While consumers have managed to keep the U.S. out of a recession for several years now, that soon ma... LYNN FRANCO We could be very well in a period where this is as good as it gets. If prices at the pump keep ticki... LYNN FRANCO VERONICA FRANCO It (dance) sparked something in me. It was something that I needed. ASHLEY FRANCO Committing a year to the company is something natural to me. ASHLEY FRANCO Our constituents know how bad our roads, our sidewalks, our infrastructure is. FRANCO MAGNIFICO The people are represented in Parliament. Therefore parliamentarians are not party delegates but rep... FRANCO DEBONO The immediate effect of the deficit is to make you feel good, like when you go on a trip and pay lat... FRANCO MODIGLIANI All member states are bound by their relevant international legal obligations, in particular those d... FRANCO FRATTINI Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, ... FRANCO HARRIS One has to be a bit more European, and a bit less protectionist. FRANCO FRATTINI VERONICA FRANCO Sweden and Denmark are two serious teams. FRANCO CARRARO The era of Berlusconi seen as a wizard who would solve the country's problems with a magic wand is o... MASSIMO FRANCO Can we seize classified files of the CIA? No, that's not possible. We don't have the powers, we have... FRANCO FRATTINI [Communists] should be crushed like worms. FRANCISCO FRANCO They were becoming like a little Mafia. If one committed a mischief, the others would not tell. FRANCO DILIGENTI Consumers appear to be weathering the steady rise in gas prices quite well, LYNN FRANCO Everything starts with our offensive line, ... They really did a nice job blocking. (BEA) runs some ... JOHN FRANCO Looking ahead, the CEOs are cautiously optimistic but not as optimistic about the short-term outlook... LYNN FRANCO A decline of more than 40 cents (a gallon) in gasoline prices this month and the improving job outlo... LYNN FRANCO A decline of more than 40 cents in gasoline prices this month and the improving job outlook have com... LYNN FRANCO But the only way we could do that was to adopt the baby, so that was out of the question, ROBERT FRANCO Much of the improvement in confidence can be attributed to the resiliency of the economy post-Katrin... LYNN FRANCO We've always been very close. But right now I feel there needs to be a change in the direction from ... FRANCO HARRIS I like the product that I see. I think that this is something that can really take off in Pittsburgh... FRANCO HARRIS I don't even think about that now. I'm still black and gold. FRANCO HARRIS After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths. FRANCO HARRIS I had 12 great years in Pittsburgh, and that one doesn't matter. During my time with Seattle, they w... FRANCO HARRIS I am excited to be part of the Forest City/Harrah's team. I've lived and played in this community fo... FRANCO HARRIS There's probably going to be about $100 million spent to buy the property ... for all the roads and ... FRANCO HARRIS I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, ... FRANCO NERO This agreement is a victory for democracy, a victory for our EU citizens, and a victory for the fund... FRANCO FRATTINI I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her livi... DAVE FRANCO We think a lot of that is reaction to the spike in prices at the pump following Katrina. LYNN FRANCO Good Morning! Good Afternoon! Good Night! These are not just mere greetings.FRANCO SANTORO I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating... FRANCO NERO It's like baseball. You step up to the plate and you'd like to knock it out of the park but the brea... EDWARD FRANCO Good day traders don't have big swings or big losing days. A really good day trader is very conserva... EDWARD FRANCO Most of our trading decisions are based on trying to identify buyers and sellers. EDWARD FRANCO One of the good perks is vacation policies, LYNN FRANCO This was the Lazarus campaign. In January, we were dead and in the tomb. JOHN FRANCO [Consumers] are more optimistic about the outlook than last month. Historically, this trend is preva... LYNN FRANCO If the world is not to your liking, then change it. JOSELUIS FRANCO A man who has raised quintuplets has had enough of babies. FRANCO DILIGENTI We haven't seen a bill. CODEE FRANCO I had a nice case of all-day sickness until the end of February when I finally got it under control. CODEE FRANCO It didn't seem reality. We were shocked to find out it was. CODEE FRANCO FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI The stars would have to align for this to be positive. It's certainly tough for the markets. FRANCO UCCELLI They could be dead because it happened last night. FRANCO TITO There was an explosion inside the cave and the tunnel gave in, trapping everybody. FRANCO TITO The ambulance is ready to go to the dump. GEORGE FRANCO Six years in this country - this is the worst accident I've seen. GEORGE FRANCO I'm kind of surprised nobody got seriously injured. GEORGE FRANCO They could all be dead by now. FRANCO TITO We're not really sure how many people were trapped inside. I talked with three survivors and they to... FRANCO TITO It seems to me that the idea of not recognizing the result is losing strength by the hour. FRANCO PAVONCELLO The outcome might very well be that together with (Berlusconi?s) defeat this time we may also see hi... FRANCO PAVONCELLO I sensed a lot of mental and intellectual fatigue in Berlusconi. He surprised me. He's too much of a... FRANCO PAVONCELLO He is too much of a realistic businessman that if he really felt the situation was desperate, or uns... FRANCO PAVONCELLO The UDC said fundamentally that Berlusconi isn't the man to lead, and that will cause a government m... FRANCO PAVONCELLO All of this is certainly not positive for Italy's image abroad. FRANCO PAVONCELLO I don't see how he could keep his post with all the pressure. Both public opinion and political forc... FRANCO PAVONCELLO I think he would fall under a lot of national and international pressure to resign. FRANCO PAVONCELLO That in my opinion would be a serious blow in the sense that he would be a convicted prime minister ... FRANCO PAVONCELLO What we are witnessing is a political meltdown. This is a serious blow for the government, and it's ... FRANCO PAVONCELLO When I entered the monastery I wanted to be alone. Now I believe that men should worry about the wor... FRANCO NERO You're the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this. FRANCO NERO It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die. FRANCO NERO Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me. FRANCO NERO Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered. FRANCO NERO The feds should allow each region to understand what its priorities are because from there in their ... FRANCO MAGNIFICO It is people who decide whether their relationships constitute a family.... Not everyone shares the ... FRANCO GRILLINI (The database) has two main goals: contributing to the internal security of EU states and the fight ... FRANCO FRATTINI We are following all the roads FRANCO FRATTINI which has worked hard to reach this goal, feels even more the moral duty to support the brave Iraqi ... FRANCO FRATTINI We are trying to verify the reliability of the claims. It's being conducted in an in-depth fashion. ... FRANCO FRATTINI I had to assume the serious responsibility of telling the public what was happening and I think it w... FRANCO FRATTINI He died a hero, FRANCO FRATTINI I have read a report on U.S. data protection laws, and I assure you that there is no risk of abuse o... FRANCO FRATTINI take the necessary steps to look into this matter when appropriate. FRANCO FRATTINI I have read the press articles and confirm that for the time being the (European) Commission has no ... FRANCO FRATTINI When we compare music today to the past, we can see there is now a total lack of self-censorship. Al... FRANCO FABBRI I am very sorry if I disappointed you with 'Le Reve' at the premiere. FRANCO DRAGONE You can't anticipate that kind of success, FRANCO DRAGONE I believe it costs more to produce a show in Las Vegas than on Broadway. But I also see the day when... FRANCO DRAGONE The show has to be unique, FRANCO DRAGONE Right now it's a matter of biting the bullet and building our program. The best part is we're very e... FRANCO CHAVEZ Size, speed, strength. Three-A is a big difference. In Two-A, the ball comes down the middle. No way... FRANCO CHAVEZ We were there for three innings. If we stay consistent we'll do well the rest of the season. FRANCO CHAVEZ We make two catches and we're out of the inning. FRANCO CHAVEZ For one thing, we only have two players starting from last year's team. The rest are freshmen and ju... FRANCO CHAVEZ It was their best game up to now. FRANCO CHAVEZ Italy has been seeded because it deserves to be. FRANCO CARRARO Italy is seeded because it deserved it. It was a logical choice. FRANCO CARRARO A delay is impossible because it would constitute a violation of the rules. It would also disregard ... FRANCO CARRARO I'm very upset personally and it was not a beautiful day for Italian soccer. FRANCO CARRARO There is no doubt that the way the Denmark-Sweden game developed shows that the two teams were aimin... FRANCO CARRARO In two weeks, with the help of MWR, the facilities manager and his team, and the SUBASE Fire Departm... FRANCO CAROFANO Laser tag is a great team building tool. We've had people from Pfizer and Millstone come in for a da... FRANCO CAROFANO We were operating out of the Mystic Carousel and Fun Center in Mystic. But that place got sold and w... 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It has the potential to be used for longer missions in th... FRANCO BONACINA The next opportunity for a solar eclipse is 2081 for this part of the Earth so it's something which ... FRANCO BONACINA The most dangerous rider is McEwen. There's a dangerous turn close to the finish and McEwen is the b... FRANCO BALLERINI He's very smart and he's so experienced. We won't choose him just because he lives in Madrid, but be... FRANCO BALLERINI I'm still dead! FRANCISCO FRANCO American students are more frank compared with Asian and Filipino students. It's taught me how to tr... FRANCISCO FRANCO [On communists] They should be crushed 'like worms'. FRANCISCO FRANCO There will be no communism. FRANCISCO FRANCO
I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school... 
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of y... 
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' 
I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But whe... 
I love film, and I love short films. 
I made short films in school. 
I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years. 
I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money... 
I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years. 
I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then v... 
I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to stu... 
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of y... 
All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've... 
I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico... 
Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films. 
The Lord, over the years, grew a seed in my heart to make faith-based films. 
As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short project... 
I love Pixar films; I think they're the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. &... 
A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I ... 
Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and... 
I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to tur... 
When I'm making documentaries, I think a lot about how fiction films play. I want them to have t... 
I can remember, after I started doing films, my mum began going to more arthouse films. She went to ... 
I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always ha... 
I like to think I'm making films in the film business where movies are making enough numbers for... 
Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally... 
Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'... 
I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget. 
I don't care about three years ago, ... I don't care about two years ago. I don't care about last ye... 
I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there. 
For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70... 
Long term, I think this will sort itself out. But we can't get from now to three years from now base... 
I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. I... 
I just like, when you look at people who have long careers in film, they're able to make films t... 
The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intim... 
Two years ago. To the best of my recollection, that was about the time I started to lose my mind. 
I've worked with Len Wiseman before, on the 'Underworld' series, in which I was a vampir... 
You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those fi... 
I love making cheap films. I really do. What I've found is that I work better when it's both... 
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teacher... 
I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. ... 
Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I... 
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. 
I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants. 
I wouldn't say I'm a connoisseur of film. I like certain films, but I don't pretend to b... 
I assisted on a lot of films outside my dad's company. I only did two of his films. 
I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated. 
I'm a big cardigan sweater guy. 
There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to dir... 
When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yo... 
Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they wou... 
So sweet and delicious do I become,
I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrat... 
I know that theater people often have very simplistic view of politics and tend to express very blac...