{"id":368,"date":"2015-07-11T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T07:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesfranconetwork.net\/?p=368"},"modified":"2015-07-11T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T07:27:00","slug":"james-franco-on-yosemite-and-getting-over-insecurities-as-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"James Franco on &#8216;Yosemite&#8217; and Getting Over Insecurities as Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>James Franco took a risk in the late 2000&#8217;s when he enrolled in several grad school programs at a time some would say was the pinnacle of his acting career.<\/p>\n<p>But the gamble has more than paid off as the 37-year-old auteur has ventured into and mastered a plethora of artistic mediums before and since. In recent years, Franco has written books, produced films, taught classes and has taken his directing to a whole new level.<\/p>\n<p>Franco says film school at NYU and Columbia was a big help, especially when it comes to telling master actors what to do!<\/p>\n<p>Read: James Franco Offering Students a Chance to Make a Film With Him<br \/>\n&#8220;Going to school was incredible for me,&#8221; he told ABC News. &#8220;It gave me the confidence to picture myself as a director. I had directed things before film school, but I was pretty insecure about what I was doing. So, film school kind of gave me the confidence to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One recent film where Franco played the jack-of-all-trades and stepped behind the camera in addition to starring alongside Will Ferrell and Megan Fox was &#8220;Zeroville.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will was great, it does take a little bit of confidence that maybe I didn&#8217;t have when I stared out,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;d be scary to work with people that are the best at what they do. I found that a lot of actors that I never dreamed of directing like Ferrell or Robert Duvall and Bryan Cranston, all these people in my other film &#8216;In Dubious Battle,&#8217; they all responded to the material, but I think they also responded to the attitude of that we don&#8217;t have to all wait around for somebody to allow us to do this &#8230; we kind of figured out ways to make these [movies] happen.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/embed?id=32361583' width='640' height='360' scrolling='no' style='border:none;'><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/us\">ABC US News<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/us\/video\">World News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/james-franco-yosemite-insecurities-director\/story?id=32353874\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Franco took a risk in the late 2000&#8217;s when he enrolled in several grad school programs at a time some would say was the pinnacle of his acting career. But the gamble has more than paid off as the 37-year-old auteur has ventured into and mastered a plethora of artistic mediums before and since. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}