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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.

Mike Mills's Popular Quotes

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

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I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

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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…

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Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

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As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just…

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There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to every…

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As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not …

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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.

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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 ambigu…

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