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.

Quote by Arthur Miller

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Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

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...

Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country...

Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country...

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son....

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son....

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and...

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and...

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab...

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab...

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the...

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the...

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders...

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders...

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have...

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have...

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab...

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab...

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a...

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a...

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New...

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New...

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...

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

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...

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...