that ahmadinejad. rose: nobody asked you to kill assad? no, no. you couldn t stay they did. rose: (laughs) maybe you already did. you poisoned him. rose: no. franco for the hour next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose: this is not a roast. this is my greatest most elaborate art installation ever. (cheers and applause) i m not the real guest of honor and these aren t real comedians and we re not even on a real network. (laughter) what you ve seen tonight was my brilliant opus to sequester and artistic visionary and subjected to the mindless incoherent trashing of a scattering of talentless abnormalities. i call it genius unscathed and this is my masterpiece! (cheers and applause) rose: james frong co-is here. he is an actor, director and art itself. he s also an author. the los angeles angels of anaheim described him as the prince of perpetual motion. his new book is a novel called actors an
you couldn t say if they did. maybe you already did. you poisoned him. rose: no. no. frank co-for the hour. next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. this is not a roast! this is my greatest, most elaborate art installation ever. (laughter) (cheers and applause) i m not the real guest of honor, these aren t real comedians and we re not even on a real network. (laughter) what you ve seen tonight was my brilliant opus to sequester and artistic visionary and subject them to the mindless incoherent trashings of a scattering of miscreated talentless abnormalities. i call it genius unscathed. and this is my masterpiece! (cheers and applause) rose: james franco is here. he is an actor, a director, an artist. he s also an author. the los angeles angels of anaheim described him as the los angeles times described him as the prince of perpetual motion. his new book is called actor anonymous and here is the
you couldn t say if they did. maybe you already did. you poisoned him. rose: no. no. frank co-for the hour. next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. this is not a roast! this is my greatest, most elaborate art installation ever. (laughter) (cheers and applause) i m not the real guest of honor, these aren t real comedians and we re not even on a real network. (laughter) what you ve seen tonight was my brilliant opus to sequester and artistic visionary and subject them to the mindless incoherent trashings of a scattering of miscreated talentless abnormalities. i call it genius unscathed. and this is my masterpiece! (cheers and applause) rose: james franco is here. he is an actor, a director, an artist. he s also an author. the los angeles angels of anaheim described him as the los angeles times described him as the prince of perpetual motion. his new book is called actor anonymous and here is the
that s why noel and i got on so well. it s a nice restaurant, cully. yes, it is. it s not the sort of place i d choose. no, you d rather eat at home. well, after a hard day, yes, i would. not late again, am i? hello, daniel! mrs. barnaby. sir. thank you for inviting me, cully. may i say you look lovely? just sit down, would you? all right. i ve invited you all here because i didn t want to cancel, and i didn t want to come here alone, so. that s understandable. will you join me in a toast? to absent friends. to absent friends. rose: welcome to the program. tonight, a conversation with a man of many talents, james franco. i can t work any harder than i ve been working. and i and i 1% of me does it to just be able to say to people look, i m not a fake. back off. the other 99% of me went to school and studied all those things because i want to take writing and directing and everything as seriously as i take acting. so i ve heard that you ve
really not that as i think as much as being able to find the best form for the different subjects that i m interested in. and in something like contemporary art i was at r.i.s.d. studying art. in that world it s fairly common and accepted for an artist to be a painter, make videos, maybe write a book. and that s because the art world has just moved beyond. they ve moved beyond form, they ve moved beyond the studio. it s a post-studio world and it s been that way for decades. but when an actor does it there s skepticism. rightly so. because actors generally speak or at least when you do a certain level of movie have a certain level of celebrity and so people are skeptical of act using their celebrity to, you know, gain in roads to areas that they otherwise wouldn t have access to. so i understand all of that. but i also have done as much work and gone to as much school as, you know, anyone else. so there s nothing i can i can t work any harder than i ve been working. 1% o