Art Quote by Mike Mills

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

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

Life is too short for a half-rack.

— Mike Mills

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

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

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

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

— Mike Mills

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

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

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

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

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

— Mike Mills