James Franco On Adapting Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

“When [the characters are] speaking to each other, they speak as early-20th-century farmers. It’s fairly realistic. But underneath, in the inner monologues, … they speak in ways that these characters would never articulate. … Maybe they could feel as deeply but they would never use this diction. So we came up with was the split-screen: that would give the feeling of multiple perspectives.”