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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest. Jonathan Miller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings. Jonathan Miller Read Quote
Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they’re trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it’s right. Jonathan Miller Read Quote
People are already self-selected by the time they’ve decided to become scientists. Jonathan Miller Read Quote