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Mike Mills Biography

Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock band R.E.M. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist, backing vocalist, and pianist, his musical repertoire also includes keyboards, guitar, and percussion instruments. He contributed to a majority of the band's musical compositions.

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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.

Edit, Leaves, Real, Screening, Sorry, Thinking

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

Believe, Film, Watches

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

Ideas, Inanimate Objects, Intrigued, Life, Objects, Pieces

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.

Advertisements, Doe, Film, Giving, People

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

Drunkenness, Good, Grief

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

Complication, Emotional, Lives, People, Turf

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.

Captain, Directors, Dress, Dresses, Party, Today

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

Communicate, Express, Struggle, Struggles, Trying, World

Life is too short for a half-rack.

Half, Life, Life Is Too Short, Racks, Short

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.

Communication, Contexts, Differences, Different, Show, Student

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.

Life, Men, Real, Son, Years

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.

Doe, House, Like, Looking, Talking

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

Actors, Believe, Definitely, Energy

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

Connection, Connections, Grieving, Nerves, Poetic

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.

Animal, Humans, Make, Normal, Space, Want

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

Endlessly, Film, Reach, Think, Thinking

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.

Actors, Experienced, Guise, Instead, Lying, Pretending

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.

Anxiety, Filmmaker, Pills, Probably, Stop, Watches

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.

Happens, Ride, Sadness, Self, Work Out

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.

Dad, Experiences, Gay, Positive, Straight, Writing

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