You get to actually make your movie. As a filmmaker, that's the dream. That's why you get up in the morning, to be able to do that. You feel constrai….

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….

Jumpy is the most incredible animal of all time. The movie [Valley of Violence] is the tamest example of what that dog is capable of..

I'd been all hyped about it, I was like, "Please come," and to have that and know Tommy Nohilly is probably going like, "This is cool," it makes me f….

I think you make the movie in your head that you have to make, and you have to get it out of you. You have all these pretentious reasons why you want….

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 j….

Humor is more so. For this, there's definitely moments that I think, "I know this part is really funny and I want to see people laugh." And they do a….

Everything Jumpy could do [in Valley of Violence] was too much. If I put it in the movie you would all check out. When he wraps himself up in the bla….

You want to be able to say [to Ethan Hawke's character], "Dude, it's okay," but maybe it's not. Maybe he's not a good person. I don't know. That's th….

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

Older actresses apparently have no sense of humor about being older actresses..

Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and ….

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 movi….

I don't really get that nervous about whether people like it. You can't do anything about that. It's more technical. You spend two years of your life….

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life..

Movies aren't "slow burn," and aren't serious, aren't interesting, because everything from the movie to the promotional materials is telling you that….

We've become so postmodern as an audience and we're so familiar with the style of horror movies that they all kind of feel the same. I think if you c….

They're both [Ethan Hawke and John Travolta] so good. It's hard to explain. But they're consummate professionals and you see the little choices they ….

Toby [Huss] gets shot, or that part when [John] Travolta says this, or the part where Ethan [Hawke] says that cool thing - those details are the thin….

The bad guys, when they start getting picked off, they're upset that their friends died, too. But that's the thing. That's what life is. It's that we….

It's this long monologue [in Valley of Violence] with Ethan Hawke talking about life and everything with a dog. That's not in movies. Hopefully when ….