“Roald Dahl, whose books got me reading and influenced my dark sense of humor.” – Interview Magazine, 2009
“I audited this class and the people onstage were screaming and crying and hitting each other. I was like, fuck this! It was so intense. But I ended up sticking it out, and I really liked it.” – Interview Magazine, 2009
“I’m a cat person. I have two giant cats [Harry and Arturo] that I call the small panthers. They’re like 17 pounds each—they’re big boys! Every photo on my phone is of them doing something funny.” – Interview Magazine, 2009
“Yeah, one thing that’s I’ve learned is that auditioning never gets easier – and sometimes I think about it like this – where you get a script, you spend a couple hours reading the script, you spend a couple hours going over the audition scenes, the next day or so before the audition, you’re running over the lines in your head over and over, you go in for coaching, you drive 45 minutes to the audition, you wait 30 minutes before you go in, you go in for 5 minutes, fuck it up, and go home. It’s a brutal process. ” – Blackbook Magazine, 2011
“Recently I’ve been looking for something new. The past few projects I’ve worked on, I keep getting cast as the asshole. I promise I’m a nice guy and not the asshole that everyone keeps seeing. ” – Blackbook Magazine, 2011
“Nobody’s going to cast me because I’m James Franco’s little brother. Obviously I respect him and I love him, and we get along very well, but I do want to have my own career. I know how different we are, and that I can personally play roles that he wouldn’t necessarily want to play. I don’t want to be linked to him for the rest of my life. Every time someone mentions my name, I don’t want James Franco’s little brother to precede it.” – Blackbook Magazine, 2011
“I’d say I’m a very ambitious person as well—but I love my downtime, I like to relax. I like to work hard and then take a long break and do absolutely nothing, and hang with friends.” – Blackbook Magazine, 2011
“When I’m dating someone, if she bonds with my cats I’ll give her a chance maybe more than I would otherwise. But if she doesn’t like my cats it’s kind of a deal breaker.” – Seventeen Magazine, 2011
“I am nothing like my character Cole on the show Scrubs. As much fun as it is playing a complete
and utter douchebag, it’s still difficult for me to watch myself in that role.” – 944, 2010
“My apartment is littered with both of my brothers’ artwork. Those are the most meaningful objects that I own.” – 944, 2010
““Once a week I would meet up with the coolest teacher and we’d go over my work. All my friends were like, Soooo… once a week at lunch you meet up with Mr. Schulenberg to talk about poetry. (smiles) They all thought I was having sex with my teacher. But I really just loved to write and it was a nice outlet.” – Death + Taxes Magazine, 2010
