Top 32 Peckinpah Quotes
#1. 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.
Neil Marshall
#2. If I was ever gonna remake a Peckinpah film, it would be 'Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia.' That's my favorite Peckinpah film.
Joe Carnahan
#3. I've always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, and they mainly took place in the West that was changing.
Roger Deakins
#4. I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.
Richard Farnsworth
#5. I am inspired by both Japanese Samurai films, in particular the films of Kurosawa, and how they share the spirit of American Westerns, with the influences running in both directions, and including the 'Spaghetti Westerns' and films of Sam Peckinpah.
Ann Nocenti
#6. I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.
Sam Peckinpah
#8. I wanna chase down Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith. I would love to start my film career.
Shemar Moore
#10. I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity.
George Carlin
#11. For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent storytelling.
Simon Mainwaring
#12. 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
#13. The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
Sam Peckinpah
#14. A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
Emily Dickinson
#15. Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
Sam Peckinpah
#17. 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
#18. The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.
Sam Peckinpah
#19. I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.
Sam Peckinpah
#20. I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.
Frederick Frank
#21. I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.
Sam Peckinpah
#22. I hate money. It is boring and it is arithmetic. The two things I hate the most.
Fran Lebowitz
#23. Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.
Vladimir Putin
#24. I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
Sam Peckinpah
#27. The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.
Richelle Mead
#28. Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
Sam Peckinpah
#30. 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
#31. If every other Jew had a weapon in 1939, there wouldn't be a Holocaust.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
#32. Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.
Umberto Eco
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