The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“If you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certain age, or… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“(Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
