There's no such thing as nothing

Student: “…So it’s really like there’s never nothing.”

Meisner: “There’s no such thing, there’s no such thing as nothing. There’s no such thing as nothing. There’s no such thing as nothing.”

Student: “What about silence?”

Meisner: “Listen, silence is a moment. A moment of silence is something too…Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.”