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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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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Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
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There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.
