Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
ARTHUR MILLERWhat is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
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The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
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I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
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I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
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He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
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In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
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