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
held loved westerns
I loved Westerns as a kid, and I wanted to see if they held up,
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.
film made shots
I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.
today comment western
The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.
morning mirrors wake-up
I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
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.
house want justified
All I want is to enter my house justified,
ends filmmaker
The End of a Picture is Always an End of a Life.
able want kurosawa
I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.
wife mexican film
Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
falling-in-love fall easy
Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.