James Franco likes variety in roles

Hollywood actor James Franco says he likes to try out all genres of movies.

He feels he shouldn't miss out on any "experience", reports contactmusic.com.

Franco said: "It seems like of course you should work this way, but I didn't understand this: don't act in any movie you wouldn't ordinarily go to see on your own if you weren't in it. Now I don't necessarily always follow that advice. Sometimes there's an actor I want to work with, or a director I want to work with. On 'Eat Pray Love' I got to work with Julia Roberts for a week. Why not have that experience?"

"The press are going to come up with an image of you no matter what, so if projects like 'General Hospital' are a way to go out there and shake that up a little bit I don't see the harm."