Western Quotes by Sam Peckinpah

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

— Sam Peckinpah

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

— Sam Peckinpah

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

— Sam Peckinpah

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

— Sam Peckinpah

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

— Sam Peckinpah

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war…

— Sam Peckinpah

The Price Is Right can really get me going.

— Sam Peckinpah

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

— 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…

— Sam Peckinpah

All I want is to enter my house justified,

— Sam Peckinpah

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

— Sam Peckinpah

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

— Sam Peckinpah