Mike Mills Quotes
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.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
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Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
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The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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'Animal Ark', was when I was fourteen years old, and it was an ITV children's program, and I did an episode called, 'Bunnies in the Bathroom.' And I'm not sure if it was my finest hour.
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I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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He looked at the machine, its cabinets all standing open; it should be destroyed, he thought. But he had no idea how to do it, nor any will to try. Destruction was not his line; and a machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
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Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.
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Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog.
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I believe if you're prepared to kill the animal, you're allowed to eat it.
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Some people say, 'Maude Apatow is my spirit animal.' I get that a lot. They tweet it to me.
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It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
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It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.
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Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list too. That is the real humanitarianism.
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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
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Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.
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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.
