Best quotes by William Klein on America

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• ‟ Being an expatriate doesn't go down well in America.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The best critics of America are Americans.

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• ‟ In America, kids would go to college and get out and buy a second-hand car and go across the country and discover America. I never did that; I went from New York to Paris, and New York was my America.

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• ‟ My father was convinced that America was the greatest place in the world. I'm afraid I didn't have the family I would have dreamed of.

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• ‟ My grandfather and his wife came to America at the end of the 19th century from Hungary. Everyone started out on the Lower East Side. They became embourgeoise and would move to the Upper West Side. Then, if they'd make money, they'd move to Park Avenue. Their kids would become artists and move down to the Lower East Side and the Village.

  - William Klein