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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/being-a-doctor-has-taught-me-a-lot-about-directing-you-re-doing-the/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

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## More by Jonathan Miller

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/i-m-not-against-asking-the-audience-to-work-but-i-think-what-you-have/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [It's usually the people that are most obsessed with being in a relationship that are the least prepared to make work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/it-s-usually-the-people-that-are-most-obsessed-with-being-in-a/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/i-m-not-really-a-jew-just-jew-ish-not-the-whole-hog/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/errors-of-taste-are-very-often-the-outward-sign-of-a-deep-fault-of/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/the-burden-of-the-past-is-only-i-think-oppressive-when-you-ve-got-to/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [Science is a self-sufficient activity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/science-is-a-self-sufficient-activity/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/someone-like-einstein-was-quite-clearly-a-moralist-and-he-had-a-very/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/as-we-know-from-the-work-of-certain-fundamental-physicists-people/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/i-wasn-t-driven-into-medicine-by-a-social-conscience-but-by-rampant/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [“I was just rather fascinated by certain what seemed to me insoluble paradoxes about reflection, about what it was like to look in one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/i-was-just-rather-fascinated-by-certain-what-seemed-to-me-insoluble/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/being-a-doctor-has-taught-me-a-lot-about-directing-you-re-doing-the/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/it-s-not-that-shakespeare-is-frivolous-but-you-spend-your-time-just/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/people-can-t-draw-now-and-don-t-feel-it-s-necessary-art-students-don/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/people-are-already-self-selected-by-the-time-they-ve-decided-to/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/the-foyer-at-covent-garden-looks-like-harrods-food-hall-has-offered/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

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