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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 Is Actually A Huge Suicide Problem In Palo Alto Schools, So Obviously Not All Is Well In Paradise. High Expectations, And The Pressure To Achieve In A Highly Competitive World Are Too Much For A Lot Of Very Promising Young People. There Have Been Something Like Ten Youth Suicides In Palo Alto In The Past Ten Years. They Usually Step In Front Of The Train That Runs By The High School.

I Was Being Generous. Gia Coppola Wasn't Even A Filmmaker At That Time, But I Asked Her To Do It, Because I Believed In Her As An Artist. And Because I Wanted A Woman's Take On The Material. The Book Palo Alto Is Very Male-centric, But Gia Carved Out A Bunch Of The Female Characters, And Brought Them To The Fore In The Movie. And The Project Was Richer For It.

Sometimes I Get A Little Sad, And I Feel Like Being Alone. Then I Talk To My Cat About It, And He Reminds Me I’m James Franco. Then We Dance.

I Love Collaboration Of All Kinds, And I Love The Way That Collaboration Pulls Me Into Directions I Wouldn't Go In If I Was Working On My Own.