Quotes About Sam Peckinpah

I've always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, and they mainly took place in the West that was changing.

The point of remaking 'Straw Dogs' is not to replicate the philosophies of Sam Peckinpah at all. What made that film singular was the attitude that he brought to the characters. Oddly enough, that's the one thing that I really wanted to change.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

I believe Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and I hold him in high regard.

I was influenced by American movies of the '60s and '70s, especially Don Siegel's 'Dirty Harry' and the films of Sam Peckinpah. And, of course, a lot of the film noir movies of the '40s.