Theres some movies I watch, theyre 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. – Mike Mills
Shooting a film is like a kismet quest. You have thirty days and you need magic to happen. So thats why I wear suits. Im praying to the gods, and Im doing everything I can to respect the powers of the world. – 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
Life doesnt just happen its constructed through the history of power. And thats something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world thats trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here. – Mike Mills