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
more-money certain
Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.
speak
Yo quito se dablo enchalada porquesa in quinto minuto! But I don't speak spanish.
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.
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.
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.
hard
No, no, ... It's hard enough just doing one of the parts.
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.
alive alone draft forming fulfilled hoping paper perfect search shall single sitting smith suspect vain words written
I am most alive and most fulfilled sitting alone in a room, hoping that those words forming on paper in the Smith Corona will be the first perfect play ever written in a single draft I suspect that I shall keep writing in a vain search for the perfec
heard neither
I'd tell you, but you've never heard their names, and neither have I,
hands pages needs
I don't use computers... I'm someone who needs to see the page right away in my hand.
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.