Neil Simon
Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simonis an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He has written more than thirty plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth4 July 1927
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
writing dark giving
It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.
writing play mind
I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.
notebook writing typewriters
You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.
writing hands may
Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.
children men dating
I don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages have involved children, so I'm really a family man as well.
character play ego
I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.
eye writing play
I never write a play with an eye to film.
character writing years
I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.
women achievement body
The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.
new-york smell mecca
New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
new-york eight two
There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.
awards people mechanic
People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?
giving mind chance
Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.
underwater baptists
Baptists are only funny underwater.