You have to. But I generally try - I'll creep in the back. I'll be outside. I'll pace around. I don't really get that nervous about whether people like [my films].

One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog.

It's unreal. I mean, the dog backflips. It's amazing. Google Jumpy on YouTube - I had seen the dog first and I was like, "Y'all don't even know."

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.

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

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

Really, I wanted to make a movie [Valley Of Violence] about: How does violence affect people? This is a take from me on how violence affects people.