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
The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.
The brain heals the past like an injury ...
There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.
How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.
Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.
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.
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment.
A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.