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 somebody isn't …

- Sam Peckinpah

All I want is to enter my house justified.

- Sam Peckinpah

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

- Sam Peckinpah

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 h…

- Sam Peckinpah

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

- Sam Peckinpah

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

- Sam Peckinpah

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

- Sam Peckinpah