Sam Peckinpah famous quotes

04-24-2025

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 #Madness
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
The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.
-- Sam Peckinpah

#Today #Comment #Western
Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
-- Sam Peckinpah

#Giving #Interviews #Should
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
I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.
-- Sam Peckinpah

#Heart #Violence #Students
All I want is to enter my house justified,
-- Sam Peckinpah

#House #Want #Justified
Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
-- Sam Peckinpah

#Wife #Mexican #Film
Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
-- Sam Peckinpah

#Falling In Love #Fall #Easy
I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
-- Sam Peckinpah

#Morning #Mirrors #Faces
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
The End of a Picture is Always an End of a Life.
-- Sam Peckinpah

#Ends #Filmmaker
The Price Is Right can really get me going.
-- Sam Peckinpah

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