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"The way I
see things, life is both sad and funny. I can’t imagine a comical situation that
isn’t at the same time also painful. I used to ask myself: What is a humorous
situation? Now I ask: What is a sad situation and how can I tell it humorously?" |
Putting a play like Come Blow YourHorn, my first effort (it took three years to write and twenty complete new versions), under today's microscope with all its advanced technology, is like looking at a yellowed and faded photograph of ourselves in a tattered family album and saying, "My God, did I really look like that when I was a kid? Did I really wear knickers with long socks and part my hair straight down the middle like a turn-of-the-century Third Avenue bartender?" - Neil Simon, Los Angeles, Nov. 7th, 1977 (qtd. from McGovern, 1979) |
