It helped that Lawrence Bender and I both had access to those people. I personally knew Rita and Ralph, and Arie came to the table 100 percent wanting Rita for the role she played. Ralph is who he pictured for his role.

I guessed I lived in somewhat of a dream world, because I used to think actors did things just to do it for you -- that's not true. For anybody who cares about their professional life or career without getting paid for it, the material has to resonate with them in some way personally.

We are just having a lot of poles down and wires down. We haven't had a lot of flooding. We have had a couple of requests for sand bags.