Mike Mills Quotes
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I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.
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OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.
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To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.
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I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.
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It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.
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There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.
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I pretty much believe that a film is a film and when an audience watches a film, they finish it.
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Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.
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We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.
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The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.
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My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.
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I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I'm back for more.