3 December 2020 Mike Mills 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.
3 December 2020 Mike Mills There’s some movies I watch, they’re kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.
3 December 2020 Mike Mills I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I’m trying to make something that helps make me happy.
3 December 2020 Mike Mills Life doesn’t just happen it’s constructed through the history of power. And that’s something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that’s trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.
3 December 2020 Mike Mills Shooting a film is like a kismet quest. You have thirty days and you need magic to happen. So that’s why I wear suits. I’m praying to the gods, and I’m doing everything I can to respect the powers of the world.
3 December 2020 Mike Mills My dad’s gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships – how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.
3 December 2020 Mike Mills To me, sadness and humor aren’t disrelated and humor is the best tool I’ve had against the sadness in my life.
3 December 2020 Mike Mills I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They’re a piece of history, someone’s statement and ideas of life.
