Quotes.gg
Home
Tags
Terms and Conditions
Privacy Policy
Imprint
Made by
Last Media
Jonathan Miller
Popular Posts
#Tags
I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.
- Jonathan Miller
#Behavior
#Details
#Looking
#Time
#Trying
It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?
- Jonathan Miller
#Dress
#Earth
#Go
#People
#Time
You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity.
- Jonathan Miller
#Doing
#Find
#Life
#Serious
#Yourself
I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.
- Jonathan Miller
#Everything
#Think
#Up
#Well
#Yourself
Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.
- Jonathan Miller
#Behavior
#Doctor
#Doing
#Me
#People
I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.
- Jonathan Miller
#Difference
#Extraordinary
#Ideal
#Window
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
- Jonathan Miller
#Burden
#Experience
#Go
#Only
#Past
Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.
- Jonathan Miller
#Exhibitions
#Life
#See
#Want
#Way
What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.
- Jonathan Miller
#Been
#Neurologist
#See
#Should
#You
Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.
- Jonathan Miller
#Order
#Political
#Spiritual
#Vision
#Way
People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.
- Jonathan Miller
#Become
#Decided
#People
#Time
I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.
- Jonathan Miller
#Hog
#Jew
#Just
#Really
#Whole
Science is a self-sufficient activity.
- Jonathan Miller
#Activity
#Science
#Self-Sufficient
What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.
- Jonathan Miller
#Back
#Call
#Image
#People
#Want
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
- Jonathan Miller
#Interesting
#Literature
#Made
#Survive
Load More
Your experience on this site will be improved by allowing cookies.
Allow cookies