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.

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

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

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'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.

I always talk about movies a lot beforehand, and then we would get there, and I'd say, "Let's play around and see how it goes." And they would do it, and I'd go, "Well, that was awesome." It was really - I don't know, it was really special to watch them.

If you make just a straight scary movie, people are just - you don't know what they're thinking.