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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.

— Sam Peckinpah

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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.

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