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I like movies that leave things in the hands of the audience.

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Ti West
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: October 5
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I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.
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Ethan [Hawke] just - they got along great. He got to act with a dog, for real, and it felt like Jumpy was acting with him. It was a surreal thing to watch. When you watch the movie [Valley of Violence], you just kind of accept it. But if you do think about how we show - there's a dog and a movie star interacting - and you buy it. That's crazy.
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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 just talked about their characters and things like that. That was the business at hand.
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That's what's interesting about people. It can be funny, but when [John] Travolta got there and did [comic moments] you're like, Oh! This is really funny. Or when Karen [Gillan] and Taissa [Farmiga] do something, I'm like, This came out so much funnier.
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In general, I go to see the stuff that for me is, Thank God for that actor, he's doing something that I never imagined thank God for this filmmaker, because if this person didn't exist, this movie wouldn't exist. That's why I go to the movies. That, to me, is what's so exciting about this movie.
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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 what the themes of the movie were.
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If people don't like [my film], the ship's sailed. There's nothing I can do about that.
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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 constrained sometimes, but if the movie makes sense in the budget realm, then it isn't hard.
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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.
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It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.
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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.
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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 blanket, that's as far as I could go, and that's not even close. The dog's amazing.
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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.
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As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.
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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.
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The hardest animal was the vulture. But the horses were great, the dog was great [in Valley of Violence]. It was really easy.
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All those awkward moments - that's on the cast for doing such an amazing job. I think it was funny on the page, but when they did it, you definitely went, Oh! Watching it with a crowd that, like you said, was not expecting it to be funny, but then genuinely finding it funny, is totally a credit to their performances.
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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.
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I don't think you want to preach to people. I don't think In A Valley Of Violence, and the same with The Sacrament, there's a social commentary and a political element to both the films, but it's not like, Think this because I think this.
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It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most mainstream horror films.
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