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Mike Mills Quotes

Life is too short for a half-rack Picture Quote #1

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that’s what you’re left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich Picture Quote #1

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 me a poser Picture Quote #1

I think that animals aren’t less intelligent than humans, they’re just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million - they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

My dad’s gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their parents’ unconscious better than the parents ever do Picture Quote #1

Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that’s what I love so much about it Picture Quote #1

Over and over again, I’m trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself Picture Quote #1

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I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I’m back for more Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, ‘Why in the heck did you get married?’ Like, what was going on? What was that time? It’s like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family’s based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand 55 Picture Quote #1

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. You are felt as being very unattractive Picture Quote #1

I’m into people’s emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That’s my turf Picture Quote #1

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 desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

There’s some things that you learn as you’re shooting, and as you’re editing that are key, because when you start you don’t have the brain that can finish it. You don’t really know what it is, and that’s the key job; figuring out what you actually have, not what you’re dreaming of having Picture Quote #1

My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was ‘unsober’ and I wasn’t playing by my rules Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don’t Picture Quote #1

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I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot Picture Quote #1

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Over and over again, I’m trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Life is too short for a half-rack (Mike Mills Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 me a poser (Mike Mills Quotes) I think that animals aren’t less intelligent than humans, they’re just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million - they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence. (Mike Mills Quotes) 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 Quotes) My dad’s gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love. (Mike Mills Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their parents’ unconscious better than the parents ever do. (Mike Mills Quotes) Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that’s what I love so much about it. (Mike Mills Quotes) 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 Quotes) I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I’m back for more (Mike Mills Quotes) 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 Quotes) OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, ‘Why in the heck did you get married?’ Like, what was going on? What was that time? It’s like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family’s based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand 55. (Mike Mills Quotes) 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. You are felt as being very unattractive. (Mike Mills Quotes) I’m into people’s emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That’s my turf. (Mike Mills Quotes) 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 desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness. (Mike Mills Quotes) 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 Quotes) There’s some things that you learn as you’re shooting, and as you’re editing that are key, because when you start you don’t have the brain that can finish it. You don’t really know what it is, and that’s the key job; figuring out what you actually have, not what you’re dreaming of having. (Mike Mills Quotes) My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was ‘unsober’ and I wasn’t playing by my rules. (Mike Mills Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don’t (Mike Mills Quotes) I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot (Mike Mills Quotes) There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good (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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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