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

Jumpy is the most incredible animal of all time. The movie [Valley of Violence] is the tamest example of what that dog is capable of.

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

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

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

I think you make the movie in your head that you have to make, and you have to get it out of you. You have all these pretentious reasons why you want to do it, and you set out to accomplish them. And you think "This is important for what I'm trying to accomplish for the story," and I think those reasons will come through to an audience, and they will find it. That's the best you can do.

I don't really get that nervous about whether people like it. You can't do anything about that. It's more technical. You spend two years of your life obsessing, picturing sound details, and you work so hard to make a movie a certain way, that you get there, and you're like - is it loud enough or whatever, so that this experience with everybody in this room is the fairest chance I can get. And then if you like it, cool, and if you don't, whatever.