I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot. – Mike Mills
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
Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is theres so much shame around it. If you have it youre a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive. – Mike Mills
Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that theres no difference between a gallery show and a film – or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. Theyre just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication. – Mike Mills