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Sam Peckinpah Quotes

1925–1984 United States

David Samuel Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American film director and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch (1969). He was known for the visually innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence as well as his revisionist approach to the Western genre.

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There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war and madness.

I walked from the series because Jules Levy and that group had taken over my initial concept and perverted it into pap. They wouldn't let Johnny grow up; they refused to let it be the story of a boy who grows to manhood learning what it's all about.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sam Peckinpah (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.