TORONTO (AP) — As James Franco gets set to open his latest film, “The Sound and the Fury,” the actor-director likes to think of star Scott Haze as the Robert De Niro or Leonardo DiCaprio to his Martin Scorsese.

“Scott is one of my favorite actors. I would call him my De Niro. Umm, I would call him my Leo. He’s more my Leo,” Franco joked in a joint interview with Haze at this month’s Toronto Film Festival.