If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

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.

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

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

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.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

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