Adapting A Book Is Essentially A Collaboration,

I Loved The Book [the Adderall Diaries] I Optioned It, I Think Some Years Ago. But There's A Lot Of Different Threads In The Book. It Starts Off As One Thing, Where He's Trying To Cover This Murder Trial, And Then His Own Life Starts To Impinge On That, So It Becomes Something Else. I Found That Fascinating.

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.

There's A Long Tradition Of Teen Comedies Where The Kids Are Getting Drunk On Beer And Whatever Else, So Smoking A Joint To Me Is No Worse Than Having A Beer. So, If Someone Has A Problem With It, I'll Just Tell Them To Relax.

I Drank From The Bottle Again And It Was A Scary Plunge Because I Always Wanted To Take Too Much. It Hurt, But It Was Also Impressive, Like Being In The Hands Of A Bigger Force. And Because Of That, A Relief.

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.