Mike Mills Quotes

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• Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
• The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.
• 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,…
• Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.
• 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.
• I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
• I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.
• I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.
• I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.
• I pretty much believe that a film is a film and when an audience watches a film, they finish it.
• I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.
• I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.
• 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.
• My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find…
• Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.
• The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

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