Everything Jumpy could do [in Valley of Violence] was too much. If I put it in the movie you would all check out. When he wraps himself up in the blanket, that's as far as I could go, and that's not even close. The dog's amazing.

Typically, in Westerns, people who are in a Western feel like they're in a Western. It's almost like they know they do all these Western things.

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

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

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.

[Valley of Violence] was written for James Ransone. PJ's a friend of mine, I've known him for a long time, he's always like, "Dude, when are we going to make a movie together?" I finally called him.

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