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.

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

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.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.