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

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.

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

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 do think, even though I've made these genre movies, there's what happens in the movie and then there's what the movie's about. And for me, what the movie's about is so much more interesting.

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

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.