When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

It was a very difficult book. On February 27 2011 he and Anne Hathaway hosted the 83rd Academy Awards. To continue acting he would study on film sets.

James Edward Franco (born April 19 1978) is an American actor filmmaker teacher and author. For his role in 127 Hours Franco received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 2013 he began teaching a course in short film production at the University of Southern California and a course in screenwriting at his alma mater University of California Los Angeles where he is also an adjunct professor of English.