Quotes by Mike Mills

Mike Mills

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

Watch Movie

Watches

I pretty much believe that a film is a film and when an audience watches a film, they finish it.

Believe

Film

Watches

I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I’m back for more.

Bows

Lasts

Ties

I would hate to think I’m promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you’re taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

Hate

Sadness

Thinking

I’m into people’s emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That’s my turf.

Complication

Emotional

People

I’m not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I’m more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Art

Film

Ideas

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It’s almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It’s time first – what year is it – then where are we, and then who is in it.

Character

Land

Thinking

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.

Art

Culture

Design

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

Giving

Stuff

Way

Life is too short for a half-rack.

Half

Life Is Too Short

Racks

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Animal

Anxiety

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Believe

Bows

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Complication

Connections

Crazy

Culture

Dad

Design

Differences

Different

Documentaries

Doe

Dresses

Drunkenness

Emotional

Ethics

Felt

Film

Flower

Gay

Giving

Grief

Grieving

Half

Hate

House

Ideas

Important

Inanimate Objects

Knows

Land

Lasts

Life Is Too Short

Lying

Memories

Men

Mom

Nerves

Party

People

Pieces

Pills

Pretending

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Quotes by Mike Mills

Mike Mills

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

I pretty much believe that a film is a film and when an audience watches a film, they finish it.

I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I’m back for more.

I’m into people’s emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That’s my turf.

I’m not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I’m more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

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.

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

Life is too short for a half-rack.

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