Peckinpah's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work - and each other. You're my friend? Don't pick up that pen!

Chila Woychik

#3. I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

Richard Farnsworth

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

Sam Peckinpah

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

Sam Peckinpah

#6. There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

Jodi Picoult

#7. 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

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

Sam Peckinpah

#9. I know more world leaders on the stage today than anyone running, with perhaps the exception of Hillary Clinton.

Carly Fiorina

#10. One of the reasons that may force you walk away from great opportunities is when your values are keep violated...

Assegid Habtewold

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

Sam Peckinpah

#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. I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.

Ellar Coltrane

#14. We're the new face of failure
Prettier and younger but not any better off
Bullet proof loneliness
At best, at best

Fall Out Boy

#15. Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.

Nev Schulman

#16. 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

#17. I was a model Marine.. My rifle was always clean, uniform always starched, and the shoes always shined. I guess that's how I became so neat-sort of the Felix Unger of baseball roomates. Blame it on the Marines.

Jay Johnstone

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

Sam Peckinpah

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

Sam Peckinpah

#20. '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

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

Sam Peckinpah

#22. 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

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

Sam Peckinpah

#24. All I want is to enter my house justified,

Sam Peckinpah

#25. The Price Is Right can really get me going.

Sam Peckinpah

#26. I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.

Kevin Rollins

#27. And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible.

Jonah Goldberg

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

Sam Peckinpah

#29. You have to do the planed work the day

Sunday Adelaja

#30. Belief and faith have nothing to do with each other. Beliefs are the manifestation of fear whereas faith comes from courage.

Debasish Mridha

#31. 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