It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.

Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and what the themes of the movie were.

It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character moments to happen. It was always meant to have these two perspectives.

It is a very classic Western [Valley of Violence], and if you like Westerns, you'll like this movie, but there's a tone to it that's all its own that I think is unique and memorable.

I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.

We can't make a giant sprawling movie. We're going to make a small movie. And what we got is what I could get, performance-wise.

It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the horses.