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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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Ti West
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: October 5
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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.
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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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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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If you make just a straight scary movie, people are just - you don't know what they're thinking.
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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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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].
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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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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 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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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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It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different. That's the thing with violence in general.
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There's nothing stopping you from making movies. You can always make and try different things.
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It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.
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It's funny, because I don't think of my films as slow-burn. I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase until people started labeling me with it.
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I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.
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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 the thing about people. There is no real good guy or bad guy [in A Valley Of Violence]. It's all context.
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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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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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One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog.
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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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