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

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

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."

The Innkeepers were two nerds in a dead-end job and then they try to get involved and they get in over their heads, and how does it affect them? That, to me, just seems like what happens to people.

I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't know. Neurosis.

I'm doing an over-the-shoulder shot on a dog. I'm putting the camera behind the dog's shoulder. This is craziness. You just accept it in the movie [Valley of Violence], but when you make the movie, it's the weirdest thing. There's dog coverage, like it's a person.

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