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
war break-out violence
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.
animal men thinking
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.
fun simple men
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.
held loved westerns
I loved Westerns as a kid, and I wanted to see if they held up,