Simon Neil quotes

I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are.
-- Simon Neil

#Laughing #Theatre #Want

Once after Barefoot In the Park had been playing for about a week I went back to see it, watching the audience, which was just falling over laughing except for one guy sitting the aisle. I was transfixed. I said to myself, there seems to be no way to get to him. No one else would I watch except this one man. My wife joined me about 20 minutes later and asked me how it was going, and I said, terrible. I really meant it. There was no way to get to this man. It destroyed me.
-- Simon Neil

#Fall #Men #Laughing

I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.

At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.