Buck Henry Quotes

United States, Actor
December 9, 1930 – January, 8, 2020.

Henry Zuckerman, credited as Buck Henry is an American actor, writer, film director, and television director. He has been nominated for an Academy Award twice, in 1968 for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Graduate and in 1979 for Best Director for Heaven Can Wait.

Also known as Film Director, Television Director, Writer

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

Buck Henry
We all were there for the readings, the screen tests, and we knew. We knew Dustin was the guy right away.

Buck Henry
- Guy

What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just lose their edge because they haven't seen anybody or talked to anybody or been with anybody who isn't a kind of replica of themselves for a long period of time.

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- Time
- Believe
- Long
Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.

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- Mother
- Guy
- Girl
It certainly made a film writing career for me.

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- Writing
- Career