Saturday, February 12, 2005

The New York Times > Theater > Arthur Miller, Legendary American Playwright, Is Dead:
After his autobiography was published in 1987, he reflected in an interview on the course he had taken in life. "It has gone through my mind how much time I wasted in the theater, if only because when you write a book you pack it up and send it off," he said. "In the theater, you spend months casting actors who are busy in the movies anyway and then to get struck down in half an hour, as has happened to me more than once ... You have to say to yourself: 'Why do it? It's almost insulting.'"

But when asked how he wanted to be remembered, he did not hesitate. "I hope as a playwright," he said. "That would be all of it."