The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

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

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 wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.