If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an … - Mike Mills

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Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

Mike Mills

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.

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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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