There's nothing stopping you from making movies. You can always make and try different things.

The movie [ The Innkeepers] is in no way a comedy, but I would put some of the funny scenes up against some of the funnier comedies this year. I think it's genuinely really funny, but it's out of the gallows.

The first half [of Valley of Violence] was to endear you to all these people and give you all these archetypes that you're familiar with, and then the second half, just to see all those archetypes unravel like real people.

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.

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

I did the movie [Valley of Violence] from two perspectives. You're with Ethan [Hawke] the whole movie, but for the first half, you're really with Ethan. For the second half, you're with him, but also you're with the bad guys because he kind of becomes the bad guy. No one's really good in the movie.

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.