He received his undergraduate degree from UCLA in June 2008 with a GPA over 3.5/4.0.
He moved to New York to simultaneously attend graduate school at Columbia University's MFA writing program, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for filmmaking, and Brooklyn College for fiction writing, while occasionally commuting to North Carolina's Warren Wilson College for poetry. He received his MFA from Columbia in 2010. Franco is a Ph.D. student in English at Yale University and will also attend the Rhode Island School of Design.
Having previously shown a desire to teach, in March 2011, it was announced that Franco will teach a fall semester course on modifying poetry into short films to ten to twelve third-year graduate film students at NYU.
When asked about his education, Franco said that he loves school and that it keeps him focused as well as grounded. "I go to school because I love being around people who are interested in what I’m interested in and I’m having a great experience… I’m studying things that I love so it’s not like it’s a chore", he told the Washington Post, according to a New York Magazine article. Franco has also credited his education for helping him "take acting seriously" when his parents did not see it as a successful post-college career. Franco developed an aptitude for art—painting in particular—during his high school years while attending the California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA). Franco has said the painting was the "outlet" he needed in high school, and he "has actually been painting longer than he has been acting." His paintings were displayed publicly for the first time at the Glü Gallery in Los Angeles, from January 7, through February 11, 2006. He launched his first European art exhibition in 2011 at Peres Projects in Berlin.
He enjoys reading on the set of his films. Pineapple Express producer Judd Apatow has said of him: "He's a very education-minded person. We used to laugh because in between takes he'd be reading The Iliad on set. We still haven't read The Iliad. It was a very difficult book. With him, it was always James Joyce or something.
Reference: Unusual as an actor. Goes to Yale for his PhD. Teaches at NYU. Nominated for several awards for his performance in 127Hours
Other notable mentions:
- Kate Hudson
- Maria Sharapova
- Ashley Judd
- Mehjabeen
- Hasan (Ark's vocalist)
- Carl Frederich Gauss (4/30)
- Henry Poincare (4/29)
- Claude Shannon (4/30)
- Kurt Godel (4/28)
- Nima Arkani-Hamed (4/05)
- Marcel Grossman (4/10)
- Hitler
- Mukesh Ambani
- Shakespeare
- Saddam
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Charlie Chaplin
- Kareem Abdul Jabbar
- Anthony Quinn
- Garry Kasparov
- Ibn Rushd (Averroes) (Muttazila proponent)
- Russel Crowe
- Robin Wright
- Jennifer Garner
- Robert Downey Jr
- Jesus crucifixion 4/03/0033 AD
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