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

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.

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.

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.

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

It's this long monologue [in Valley of Violence] with Ethan Hawke talking about life and everything with a dog. That's not in movies. Hopefully when people think about the movie when they go home, they're like, "That's weird. He's maybe crazy. He's talking to a dog the whole time."

If you make just a straight scary movie, people are just - you don't know what they're thinking.