The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?” — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London,… — 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
The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory… — 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
There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon… — 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
