Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
ARTHUR MILLERNever fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
ARTHUR MILLERA good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
ARTHUR MILLERMaybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
ARTHUR MILLERYou cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
ARTHUR MILLERWithout alienation, there can be no politics.
ARTHUR MILLERThe 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.
ARTHUR MILLERDon’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
ARTHUR MILLERI know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
ARTHUR MILLERWell, 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 MILLERBetrayal is the only truth that sticks.
ARTHUR MILLERA child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
ARTHUR MILLERThe number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
ARTHUR MILLERA playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.
ARTHUR MILLERA suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
ARTHUR MILLERThe job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
ARTHUR MILLERIf I have any justification for having lived it’s simply, I’m nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There’s some value in that.
ARTHUR MILLER