Sam Peckinpah Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

All I want is to enter my house justified.

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

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

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

The Price Is Right can really get me going.