Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Millerwas a prolific American playwright, essayist, and prominent figure in twentieth-century American theatre. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucibleand A View from the Bridge. He also wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits. The drama Death of a Salesman is often numbered on the short list of finest American plays in the 20th century alongside Long Day's Journey into Night and A Streetcar...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth17 October 1915
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.
Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.
In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.
As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished.
There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes of money
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.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
The 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.
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.