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If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's not working. But we would show up, we would talk about it.

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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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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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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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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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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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It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.
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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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Tommy Nohilly, who plays Tubby [ Valley of Violence], he came down to see the movie for the first time and I was like, You've got to come just to see people react to your [big scene]. I knew that would go well, but it's satisfying to me when he's sitting there and it actually does.
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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 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 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 weird gray area.
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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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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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As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.
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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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[Valley of Violence] was written for James Ransone. PJ's a friend of mine, I've known him for a long time, he's always like, Dude, when are we going to make a movie together? I finally called him.
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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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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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I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.
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I like movies that leave things in the hands of the audience.
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