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.

Quote by Jonathan Miller

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A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go...

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go...

The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead

The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which...

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which...

Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing:...

Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing:...

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind,...

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind,...

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're...

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're...

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to...

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to...

As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very...

As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very...

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but...

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but...

Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators...

Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators...

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now...

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now...

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make...

Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make...

Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying...

Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying...

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed...

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed...

What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.

What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.

I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if...

I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if...

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want...

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want...