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Sam Peckinpah
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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 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.”
Sam Peckinpah (1925–1984) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Playboy, August 1972
“I did this one script for that turned down--said it was a piece of shit! I knew it was one of the best things I'd written, so I took it back and reworked it and at Four Star bought it as a pilot for . Dick Powell was really a fine gentleman and the eagle behind Four Star's success; he helped me a great deal. I didn't direct the first Rifleman; did that. I just wrote it. I did direct four of them before I left, however. The first one I directed I also wrote, called "The Marshal." It was the episode that brought in as the reformed drunk who became the marshal--a part he played for five years.”
Sam Peckinpah (1925–1984) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Sam Peckinpah's Television Work" by Garner Simmons, Film Heritage (Winter 1974/ 1975), pp. 2, 3
“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 (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Losers was a funny show. We had and locked up for a series with it until Tom McDermott wouldn't pay Lee's price. Well, after the show continued to draw a large segment of the audience around the sixth time out, McDermott called Lee and raised the ante to something like a million dollars and Lee told him to go stick it up his ass! I've always liked Lee for that--it cost me a lot of money at the time but I would've done the same thing in Lee's place.”
Sam Peckinpah (1925–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We've all grown up with the idea that gunning a man down is just fun and games. All of us, as kids, played cops and robbers, with toy pistols or pointing a finger at somebody and saying, "Bang, Bang. You're dead!" Both the movies and television have perpetuated the idea that shooting a man is clean and quick and simple, and when he falls down there is only a small hole, or a blood-stain, to show how he died. 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 just fun and games maybe we'll get somewhere about violence on the screen in the first place. [...] No, I don't like violence. In fact, when I look at the film myself, I find it unbearable. I don't think I'll be able to see it again for five years.”
Sam Peckinpah (1925–1984) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Responding, circa July 1969, to the question, "Why did you make this film?", posed by a film critic for ; as quoted in "Looking Sideways: Photographic Violence Won't Stop Violence" by Whitney Bolton, Fort-Myers News-Pre…