69 Quotes by William Klein

Memories. That's the thing about photography. I look at the contact sheet, and it brings back everything: whether I was tired, whether I was full of beans.

The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness - I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I cropped, blurred, played with the negatives.

French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs: it's only in the photographic style.

You do things for yourself, and you do things for other people, and you hope that these things coincide.

If a film is a real knockout like 'Raging Bull,' it does not matter that it might not have happened like that.

I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger.

I wasn't part of any movement. I was working alone, following my instinct.

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.

I like film. I'm old fashioned.