Sam Peckinpah
Sam Peckinpah
David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpahwas an American film director and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch. He was known for the visually innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence as well as his revisionist approach to the Western genre...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth21 February 1925
CityFresno, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Sam Peckinpah quotes about
falling-in-love fall easy
Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
The Price Is Right can really get me going.
wife mexican film
Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
able want kurosawa
I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.
giving interviews should
Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
ends filmmaker
The End of a Picture is Always an End of a Life.
house want justified
All I want is to enter my house justified,
stars philosophy self
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.
heart violence students
I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.
morning mirrors wake-up
I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
today comment western
The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.
film made shots
I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.