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
funny war humor
All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.
baseball fun writing
Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball.
funny sarcastic party
Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.
good lose moment picture seems work
It was too good a moment to lose in this picture -- and still seems to work so much,
directing joy matthew strong word work
Directing is too strong a word for what you do with Nathan, though. He's a joy to work with. And Matthew is a friend.
speak
Yo quito se dablo enchalada porquesa in quinto minuto! But I don't speak spanish.
hard
No, no, ... It's hard enough just doing one of the parts.
felt happiest start time
I felt like writing about a time when I was probably, and I think all of us are, the happiest in our lives-before the obligations start in.
again character danny nine plays sure ways
Danny made me laugh. ... He made everyone laugh. He was a character (in more ways than one) in at least nine or 10 of my plays, and I'm sure will probably be there again in many plays to come.
knew known lane since
Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.
card months oscar three
He wanted to play Oscar too, ... He said he'd give us three months if he could understudy Nathan. So we said, 'Sure,' and let him be one of the card players, too.
came knew known lane since
Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar, ... When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.
mean original pleased worried
So, doing this one -- I mean -- the only thing I worried about was, are we going to live up to the original one, ... And for that, we need the right actors and I think we got them. So that made me feel pleased about that.
heard neither
I'd tell you, but you've never heard their names, and neither have I,