“The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate...” — James Franco Quote

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.

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.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

I went through high school, but I didn't graduate.

Everyone has relationships. Breakups are hard. Everyone graduates from school.

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've been interested in poems, but not so much for what the take home pay is, what you might sum up from them in moral or intellectual terms or whatever, but what's in the certain lines and how lines relates to other lines.

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.