69 Quotes by William Klein

The best critics of America are Americans.

My complaint is that Americans drive me crazy, and the politics drive me crazy.

I didn't really know who Cassius Clay was. I just wanted to show America through a heavyweight championship fight. Ever since my childhood, I'd been fascinated by the way the whole country becomes polarised around this event.

Leger was not only the first artist I ever met but also the first pop artist, and he blew our minds.

Most of the other soldiers were older than me and sent money back to their families, so they were more prudent.

I was a very clumsy Jewish kid.

Don't have rules, taboos, or limits.

I like festivals of all kinds: in 1969, I made a film about the first Pan-African festival in Algiers, which celebrated the countries that had been liberated 10 years earlier. There was a tremendous feeling of kinship.

The English are very exotic to me.