My dads 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. – Mike Mills
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. Theyre a piece of history, someones statement and ideas of life. – Mike Mills
People ask How does doing a film compare to doing an ad? Well, when youre doing a commercial you dont have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film. – 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, Im trying to make something that helps make me happy. – Mike Mills
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. – Daisaku Ikeda