Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough … - Sam Peckinpah

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Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

Sam Peckinpah

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

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

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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

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

Comment, Frame, Today, Western

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