What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of direc… — Buck Henry

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.

Buck HenryActor · American · b. 1930

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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. — Samuel Butler
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