Top 14 Sam Peckinpah Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
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#5. I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
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#6. I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.
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#7. I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.
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#8. I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.
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#9. 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.
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#10. The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
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#11. Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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#12. 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.
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#13. The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.
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