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

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

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.

You have to. But I generally try - I'll creep in the back. I'll be outside. I'll pace around. I don't really get that nervous about whether people like [my films].

If people don't like [my film], the ship's sailed. There's nothing I can do about that.

Sometimes I look at it [Valley of Violence] and go, "How did we do that?" But it's a credit to Ethan [Hawke], he had done White Fang, so Ethan is like, "Oh God, that's right."

The first half [of Valley of Violence] was to endear you to all these people and give you all these archetypes that you're familiar with, and then the second half, just to see all those archetypes unravel like real people.