Mike Mills Quotes
I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

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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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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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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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The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
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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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Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
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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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You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.
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I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
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A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.
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But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.
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Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
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I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.