William Klein Quotes

Rules should not be barriers; they should be guides.

Limits are very important.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth that any successful society has had boundaries.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

Very few things are off-limits for me.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free .

I have rules for everything.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

I don't think limits.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could!

In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

I don't make any rules.

Liberty is the absence of constraints and impediments.

Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em the hell alone.

The reason that we have rules is so that sometimes they can be suspended.

My creativity thrives with limitations.