Mike Mills Quotes
I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.
Quotes to Explore
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
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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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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
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If the money's right, I'll do a film.
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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.
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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
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I don't want a huge wedding. I don't want it to be some huge spectacle.
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I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.
