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The second half [of Valley of Violence], you're with the guys that you should hate, but when you start seeing what their real lives are, you're like, "I do hate you, but at the same time, all right - maybe take it down a notch." The complications of all that are what's so interesting to me, those esoteric details - that's what people will hopefully take away from the movie.

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The second half [of Valley of Violence], you're with the guys that you should hate, but when you start seeing what their real lives are, you're like, I do hate you, but at the same time, all right - maybe take it down a