Mike Mills Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't 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

  People, Giving, Tickets

  Interview With Brendan Fowler, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2009.

• Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.

  Mike Mills

  Thinking, Film

• 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.

  Mike Mills

  Animal, Space, Want

  "'Indie' director Mike Mills is as happy shooting for Nike as Sonic Youth". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

• I pretty much believe that a film is a film and when an audience watches a film, they finish it.

  Mike Mills

  Believe, Watches, Film

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. January 23, 2006.

• I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

  Mike Mills

  Art, Ideas, Film

• Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.

  Mike Mills

  Communication, Differences, Different

  Interview With Brendan Fowler, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2009.

• 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.

  Mike Mills

  Art, Design, Culture

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