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
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.
He's liked, but he's not well liked.
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.
The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.
There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.
Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.