The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is… — 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
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
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
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen,… — 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
Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person,… — 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
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“(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 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
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 Image
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“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 Image
