Mike Mills Quotes
To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.
Mike Mills
American music video director
Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.
Mike Mills
American music video director
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
Mike Mills
American music video director
To be honest, we have no control over what's going on with a movie, much less what people are going to think of it. Your whole life is wound up in it but you don't have control and you have to get used to being on that turbulent plane without trying to fly it. The less you think about all that the better.
Mike Mills
American music video director
Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.
Mike Mills
American music video director
It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.
Mike Mills
American music video director
There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.
Mike Mills
American music video director
There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.
Mike Mills
American music video director
Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.
Mike Mills
American music video director
L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.
Mike Mills
American music video director
As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.
Mike Mills
American music video director
The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.
Mike Mills
American music video director
I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.
Mike Mills
American music video director
Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
Mike Mills
American music video director
No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, 'I screwed up so bad. I'm sorry, I messed up.' It's just a real common feeling.
Mike Mills
American music video director
Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.
Mike Mills
American music video director
I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.
Mike Mills
American music video director
I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.
Mike Mills
American music video director
I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.
Mike Mills
American music video director
The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.
Mike Mills
American music video director
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