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.
ARTHUR MILLERIn 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.
More Arthur Miller Quotes
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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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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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
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All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
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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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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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A 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.
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You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
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I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I’d find you coming through some door.
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What 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.
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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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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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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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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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