Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.
I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.
The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.
