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

The movie [ The Innkeepers] is in no way a comedy, but I would put some of the funny scenes up against some of the funnier comedies this year. I think it's genuinely really funny, but it's out of the gallows.

Really, I wanted to make a movie [Valley Of Violence] about: How does violence affect people? This is a take from me on how violence affects people.

It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most mainstream horror films.

I always feel like the less you say when you're making a movie, as a director, is the best. That means everything's going great.

Ethan [Hawke] just - they got along great. He got to act with a dog, for real, and it felt like Jumpy was acting with him. It was a surreal thing to watch. When you watch the movie [Valley of Violence], you just kind of accept it. But if you do think about how we show - there's a dog and a movie star interacting - and you buy it. That's crazy.

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