Sam Peckinpah Quotes

• 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

  War, Violence, Break Out

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Animal, Men, Thinking

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

  Sam Peckinpah

  Heart, Violence, Students

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

  Sam Peckinpah

  Film, Made, Shots

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• 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

  Fun, Simple, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Sam Peckinpah

  Morning, Mirrors, Wake Up

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

  Sam Peckinpah

  Today, Comment, Western

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• 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

  Stars, Philosophy, Self

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

  Sam Peckinpah

  Giving, Interviews, Should

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

  Sam Peckinpah

  Movie, Inspiring, Ends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All I want is to enter my house justified.

  Sam Peckinpah

  House, Want, Justified

  "Fictional character: Steve Judd". "Ride the High Country", en.wikiquote.org. 1962.

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

  Sam Peckinpah

  Want, Able, Kurosawa

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Price Is Right can really get me going.

  Sam Peckinpah

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

  Sam Peckinpah

  Wife, Mexican, Film

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

  Sam Peckinpah

  Falling In Love, Fall, Easy

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