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
He's liked, but he's not well liked.
Suicide kills two people.
I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.
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.
. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film . . ..
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit
You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone...