Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBEis an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor. While training in medicine, and specializing in neurology, in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the early 1960s with his role in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and performers Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth21 July 1934
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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.
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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.
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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.
I see them as a trailblazer. They're really the first to do something of this magnitude, and for a first step, I think it's fantastic.
irritates issues life valued
Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.
errors outward sign
Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
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There's a disconnect between buyers and sellers. Sellers tend to be about at least six months behind the curve.
art draw people
People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.
science
The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.
consume dominant exploding video
Video consumption is exploding on-line and on-demand is going to be the dominant way to consume content.
conscience driven rampant
I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
biological brought frivolous scientist trained
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.
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It felt like there would be no end,
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Willingness to live on the ground floor is at a much higher level today than it was in the mid-1980s.