Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Sam Peckinpah

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

David Samuel Peckinpah was an American film director and screenwriter. His 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch received an Academy Award nomination and was ranked No. 80 on the American Film Institute's top 100 list. His films employed a visually innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence as well as a revisionist approach to the Western genre.

American - Director | February 21, 1925 - December 28, 1984

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The Price Is Right can really get me going.

Sam Peckinpah

Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.

Sam Peckinpah

Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

Sam Peckinpah

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

Sam Peckinpah

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

Sam Peckinpah

I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.

Sam Peckinpah

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

Sam Peckinpah

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

Sam Peckinpah

All I want is to enter my house justified.

Sam Peckinpah

Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.

Sam Peckinpah

I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.

Sam Peckinpah

I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.

Sam Peckinpah

The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.

Sam Peckinpah

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

Sam Peckinpah

I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin gods who stand behind a tin star or ten cents' worth of righteous anger and justify their skill and slaughter with a self-conscious grin or a minute's worth of bad philosophy.

Sam Peckinpah

Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Sam Peckinpah

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