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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.

Sam Peckinpah
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Sam Peckinpah's Popular Quotes

The Price Is Right can really get me going.

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The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

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

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

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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 …

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All I want is to enter my house justified.

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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…

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

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

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