Frasi di Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller
Data di nascita: 21. Luglio 1934
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller è un regista teatrale, attore e conduttore televisivo britannico, oltre che autore, umorista e medico, ma soprattutto regista di opera. Mentre faceva il suo tirocinio da medico e si specializzava in neurologia, alla fine degli anni 1950, si fece notare, nel 1960, per il suo ruolo nella commedia Beyond the Fringe con gli altri scrittori/interpreti Peter Cook, Dudley Moore e Alan Bennett. Miller iniziò a fare il regista di opere nel 1970 e da allora è diventato uno dei più importanti registi d'opera del mondo, con diverse produzioni classiche al suo attivo. La sua più nota produzione è probabilmente il suo Rigoletto del 1982 ambientato nella Little Italy di New York nell'ambiente della mafia statunitense. Ai primi tempi era fece il regista al Royal National Theatre e poi all'Old Vic Theatre . Come scrittore e presentatore ha realizzato più di una dozzina di documentari per la BBC ed è diventato un personaggio televisivo noto e familiare al pubblico intellettuale sia nel Regno Unito che negli Stati Uniti d'America.
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drammaturgo e regista teatrale italianoFrasi Jonathan Miller
„[In casual conversation] The reason why I feel relatively indifferent to [the Anglican Church of England] is it's lost its power, and it's so desperately keen to solicit support that they're willing to throw God out of the window in order to retain it. God for the many of the Anglicans is nothing more than a sort of awkward geriatric relative, kept upstairs, who might be embarrassingly coming downstairs, incontinently, and cause trouble.“
— Jonathan Miller
Episode one: "Shadows of Doubt".
„Perhaps I was too dumb, or just too interested in cricket or in girls, to ask myself any questions about religion. If I had not been, I might have, inevitably, asked myself questions that have troubled skeptics and unbelievers for as long as men and women have been skeptical or have lacked belief. "Is there really no God? And if there really is no supernatural dimension to the universe, why have so many people throughout history and in so many different cultures thought there was?"“
— Jonathan Miller
Episode one: "Shadows of Doubt".
„There were academics and theologians who spent hours calculating what they thought was the precise age of the Earth, on the basis of the Biblical account of it. And as early as 1650, James Ussher had come to the startlingly precise conclusion that the Earth was created in 4004 on October the 22nd – in the evening, apparently. What God had been doing that morning is still open to conjecture.“
— Jonathan Miller
Episode three: "The Final Hour".
„Ever since the Reformation, there's a sense in which the road to atheism was paved not with science, but with religious intentions.“
— Jonathan Miller
Episode two: "Noughts and Crosses".
„There is one aspect of our own mentality for which it's difficult as yet to foresee what type of explanation would even be relevant. I'm referring, of course, to consciousness. The point is that although I have no reason to believe that my consciousness is implemented by anything other than my brain, I remain convinced that there's something impenetrably mysterious about the relationship between brains and thoughts. And you can understand, therefore, why it's so hard to imagine, let alone tolerate, the idea that the death of the brain necessarily leads to the end of the personal self – and this, of course, is the "trump card" with which religion has consistently played.“
— Jonathan Miller
Episode three: "The Final Hour".
„Paradoxically, some of the sources of disbelief are to be found amongst the arguments of believers. … Theologians often formulated the most dangerously skeptical arguments in their efforts to test the impregnability of their own faith, and in doing so, they unknowingly furnished atheists with ready-made weapons.“
— Jonathan Miller
Episode one: "Shadows of Doubt".
