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… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
Films are tricky because for years you're getting told you're about to make it and you're about to be busy for four or six… — Mike Mills Copy Share
Shooting a film is like a kismet quest. You have thirty days and you need magic to happen. So that's why I wear suits.… — Mike Mills Copy Share
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.… — Mike Mills Copy Share
Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make… — Mike Mills Copy Share
Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films. — Mike Mills Copy Share
I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer. — Mike Mills Copy Share
Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world:… — Mike Mills Copy Share
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… — Mike Mills Copy Share
My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in… — Mike Mills Copy Share
I am definitely writing letters to lots of directors in my mind when I'm making a film. I'm chasing Woody Allen and Godard and… — Mike Mills Copy Share
The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten. — Mike Mills Copy Share
One good and bad thing about New York is there's so much exciting stuff and so many people doing something interesting. I actually find… — Mike Mills Copy Share
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… — Mike Mills Copy Share
I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion. — Mike Mills Copy Share
