The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

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.