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
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.
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.
writing knives play
[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.
gambling risk sure-thing
There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.
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.
long enjoy-life waiting
How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.