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Top 30 Mike Mills Quotes (2025 Update)

Mike Mills Quote: “The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don’t.”

1. “The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don’t.”

Mike Mills Quote: “Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that’s what you’re left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.”

2. “Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that’s what you’re left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.”

Mike Mills Quote: “To me it’s like, every time I’m a director, like today, you’re the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You’re the host of the party.”

3. “To me it’s like, every time I’m a director, like today, you’re the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You’re the host of the party.”

Mike Mills Quote: “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 there’s so much shame around it. If you have it you’re a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.”

4. “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 there’s so much shame around it. If you have it you’re a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.”

Mike Mills Quote: “I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They’re a piece of history, someone’s statement and ideas of life.”

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

Mike Mills Quote: “My graffiti really comes more from a May ’68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.”

6. “My graffiti really comes more from a May ’68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.”

Mike Mills Quote: “I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.”

7. “I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.”

Mike Mills Quote: “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 everybody, so there’s no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.”

8. “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 everybody, so there’s no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.”

Mike Mills Quote: “Life is too short for a half-rack.”

9. “Life is too short for a half-rack.”

Mike Mills Quote: “I don’t really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.”

10. “I don’t really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.”

Mike Mills Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “I’m not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I’m more of an idea generator and manufacturer.”

12. “I’m not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I’m more of an idea generator and manufacturer.”

Mike Mills Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Quote: “I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.”

14. “I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.”

Mike Mills Quote: “No one leaves the edit room thinking, ‘Yeah, I nailed that one!’ Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, ‘I screwed up so bad. I’m sorry, I messed up.’ It’s just a real common feeling.”

15. “No one leaves the edit room thinking, ‘Yeah, I nailed that one!’ Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, ‘I screwed up so bad. I’m sorry, I messed up.’ It’s just a real common feeling.”

Mike Mills Quote: “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 ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.”

16. “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 ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.”

Mike Mills Quote: “Over and over again, I’m trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.”

17. “Over and over again, I’m trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.”

Mike Mills Quote: “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. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.”

18. “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. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.”

Mike Mills Quote: “Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that’s what I love so much about it.”

19. “Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that’s what I love so much about it.”

Mike Mills Quote: “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 don’t understand what’s happening. That everybody else does, but I don’t quite get it.”

20. “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 don’t understand what’s happening. That everybody else does, but I don’t quite get it.”

Mike Mills Quote: “I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I’m back for more.”

21. “I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I’m back for more.”

Mike Mills Quote: “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.”

22. “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 Quote: “To me, sadness and humor aren’t disrelated and humor is the best tool I’ve had against the sadness in my life.”

23. “To me, sadness and humor aren’t disrelated and humor is the best tool I’ve had against the sadness in my life.”

Mike Mills Quote: “Actors are pretending for you, but they’re not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.”

24. “Actors are pretending for you, but they’re not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.”

Mike Mills Quote: “There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.”

25. “There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.”

Mike Mills Quote: “We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.”

26. “We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.”

Mike Mills Quote: “I pretty much believe that a film is a film and when an audience watches a film, they finish it.”

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

Mike Mills Quote: “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.”

28. “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 Quote: “The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you’re grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.”

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

Mike Mills Quote: “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 real’ are very blurrily vivid to me.”

30. “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 real’ are very blurrily vivid to me.”

Mike Mills Quote: “I’m into people’s emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That’s my turf.”

31. “I’m into people’s emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That’s my turf.”

Mike Mills Quote: “Our good fortunes allowed us to feel a sadness our parents didn’t have time for, and a happiness that I never saw with them.”

32. “Our good fortunes allowed us to feel a sadness our parents didn’t have time for, and a happiness that I never saw with them.”

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