I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure.… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer. — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
