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I created 'The Westerner' bec...

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 20 quotes

I regard everything with iron...

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

Sam Peckinpah 20 quotes

The whole underside of our so...

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 20 quotes

I made a film where nobody go...

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

Sam Peckinpah 20 quotes

I want to be able to make wes...

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

Sam Peckinpah 20 quotes

Well, killing a man isn't cle...

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 20 quotes

There is a great streak of vi...

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 20 quotes

The end of a picture is alway...

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

Sam Peckinpah 20 quotes

Oh, I find it very easy to fa...

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

Sam Peckinpah 20 quotes

All I want is to enter my hous...

All I want is to enter my house justified,

Sam Peckinpah 20 quotes

The Price Is Right can really ...

The Price Is Right can really get me going.

Sam Peckinpah 20 quotes

Well, killing a man isn't clea...

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 20 quotes

I made a film where nobody got...

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

Sam Peckinpah 20 quotes

I want to be able to make west...

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

Sam Peckinpah 20 quotes

I'm a student of violence beca...

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

Sam Peckinpah 20 quotes

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was...

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

Sam Peckinpah 20 quotes

Oh, I find it very easy to fal...

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

Sam Peckinpah 20 quotes

I regard everything with irony...

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

Sam Peckinpah 20 quotes

The western is a universal fra...

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

Sam Peckinpah 20 quotes

The whole underside of our soc...

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 20 quotes

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