Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

