I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.

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

Older actresses apparently have no sense of humor about being older actresses.

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker.

I mean PJ - James Ransone - he was a friend of mine, he probably heard all this stuff, but for the rest of the cast [Valley of Violence], we mostly just talked about their characters and things like that. That was the business at hand.

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

I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story.