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Sam Peckinpah Biography

David Samuel Peckinpah (/ˈpɛkɪnˌpɑː/; February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American film director and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch (1969). He was known for the visually innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence as well as his revisionist approach to the Western genre.

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

Film, Made, Nobody, Shot, Shots

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

Easy, Fall, Falling In Love, Love

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.

Break, Break Out, Understood, Violence, War

All I want is to enter my house justified.

Enter, House, Justified, Want

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

Heart, Human, Student, Students, Violence

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.

Animal, Churches, Grace, Men, Talking, Thinking

The Price Is Right can really get me going.

Price, Right

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

Fell, Film, Mexican, Wife, Yeah

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

Give, Giving, Interview, Interviews, Plagiarists, Should

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

Able, Kurosawa, Like, Make, Want, Westerns

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

Including, Mirror, Mirrors, Morning, Wake Up

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.

Come, Enough, Fun, Men, Simple, Somebody

The End of a Picture is Always an End of a Life.

Ends, Inspiring, Life, Movie, Picture

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

Comment, Frame, Today, Western

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.

Philosophy, Self, Skill, Star, Stars