"The closer they come to transcending technique and the memorization of lines — the closer to really beginning to act, in short — the more Chinese th… - Arthur Miller

"The closer they come to transcending technique and the memorization of lines — the closer to really beginning to act, in short — the more Chinese they begin to seem. Happy now approaches Miss Forsythe to pick her up in the restaurant with a wonderful formality, his back straight, head high, his hand-gestures even more precise and formal, but with a comic undertone that ironically comes closer to conveying the original American idea of the scene than when he was trying to be physically sloppy and "relaxed" — that is, imitating an American. I think that by some unplanned magic we may end up creating something not quite American or Chinese but a pure style springing from the heart of the play itself — the play as a nonnational event, that is, a human circumstance."