Jonathan Miller

“I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not an unsentimental person, but I'm not a nostalgic person. I don't think, 'Oh, that was a great time.'”

“The trouble with television is that it has to be a consensus medium.”

“The danger of success is that it makes you want to do it again.”

“I'm not interested in being 'relevant.' I'm interested in being interesting.”

“Opera is a spectacle of passions.”

“I think that art is a form of inquiry. It's a way of finding out what you think.”

“Losing your faith in a world where God is all-powerful is a tragic affair.”

“The body is a machine, but it's a very complicated machine.”

“Atheism is a religion, and I'm a devout atheist.”

“What makes a joke funny is its unexpectedness, its violation of the expected.”

“I think one of the great things about being a director is that you can get to do all the things you'd never get to do in your real life.”

“The human face is a wonderful thing. I mean, it's the most expressive thing there is.”

“The great thing about being a physician is that you have a first-hand view of the ravages of nature.”

“I'm not an intellectual. I'm just a doctor who happens to read books.”