It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.

There's nothing stopping you from making movies. You can always make and try different things.

The hardest animal was the vulture. But the horses were great, the dog was great [in Valley of Violence]. It was really easy.

One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog.

I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic.

Technology has just been the major progression of the last 15 years - instant communication. That stuff has gone so global. That's what's interesting about it. When someone sits down in front of a computer, it's the same everywhere in the world, and it's the same screen looking back at you with the same Google, and there's no individuality to it. So I decided it would be kind of visually uninteresting to have in my films.

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.