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.

From a performance standpoint, it just gives [actors] so much - I had such a great cast [ in Valley of Violence] - and it gives them the ability to go wild with it and to have performances that are memorable.

I found Jumpy on YouTube. I wrote a movie about a guy with a dog and was like, "What have I done? This is going to be a nightmare. We're a small movie and we're never going to be able to do this."

It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most mainstream horror films.

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 mean PJ - James Ransone - he was a friend of mine, he probably heard all this stuff, but for the rest of the cast [Valley of Violence], we mostly just talked about their characters and things like that. That was the business at hand.

I don't generally watch the movie [ The House Of The Devil ]. It's sort of like hearing your voice on tape.