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.

Quote by Arthur Miller

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The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer...

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer...

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I...

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I...

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of...

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of...

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures...

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures...

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say...

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say...

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home...

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home...

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes...

There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes...

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you...

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you...

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an...

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an...

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without...

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without...

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.