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It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.

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Ti West
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: October 5
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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 like movies that leave things in the hands of the audience.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 do think, even though I've made these genre movies, there's what happens in the movie and then there's what the movie's about. And for me, what the movie's about is so much more interesting.
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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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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 can do something a little bit unexpected, then you as a filmmaker end up being one step ahead again. I think that's the key.
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I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.
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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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As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.
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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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It is a very classic Western [Valley of Violence], and if you like Westerns, you'll like this movie, but there's a tone to it that's all its own that I think is unique and memorable.
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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 think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.
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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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