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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Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.
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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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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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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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I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.
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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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There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.
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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory.
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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.
