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.

Mike Mills

• Film
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• Humans
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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.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Film
  • Unknown

• Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Life
  • Know
  • Animal

• 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.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Up
  • Action
  • Animal

• All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Kids
  • Film
  • Brother

• I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Know
  • Like
  • Film

• Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • True
  • Man
  • Religious

• 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.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Like
  • Film
  • Happen

• I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Art
  • Want
  • Me

• '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.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Children
  • Animal
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Great
  • Day
  • Film

• Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Film

• 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.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Animal

• Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Animal

• I believe if you're prepared to kill the animal, you're allowed to eat it.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Believe
  • Animal

• Some people say, 'Maude Apatow is my spirit animal.' I get that a lot. They tweet it to me.

  

  Maude Apatow
  • People
  • Animal

• For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One animal that keeps me pondering is the shark. Spellbound by these enigmatic animals since I first encountered them in New England, I never tire of watching their special blend of power and grace.

  

  Brian Skerry
  • Power
  • Animal
  • Marine

• Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Military
  • Animal

• All of my friends are animal people. To me, cats are people, too. Animals are people, too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas, it's really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently, especially in developing countries.

  

  AnnaLynne McCord
  • People
  • Friends
  • Travel

• My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Art
  • Wife
  • Film

• Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.

  

  Niklas Luhmann
  • Humans
  • Minds
  • Communicate

• The biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the toughest part.

  

  Cate Shortland
  • Film
  • Challenges
  • Honestly

• You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Thinking
  • Absurdity

• A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • People
  • Reality
  • Author

• 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
  • Film
  • Animal
  • Humans