Quotes by Mike Mills

About Mike Mills:

Michael Edward is an American multi-instrumentalist 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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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 ou...

Mike Mills

Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.

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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

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

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

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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.

Mike Mills

The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.

Mike Mills

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.

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

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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.

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I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

Mike Mills

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

Mike Mills

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

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

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

Mike Mills

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

Mike Mills

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

Mike Mills

Everyone talks to their dog, and then in your mind the dog talks back. A talking dog can provide the words that a stunted protagonist finds difficult to muster.

Mike Mills

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

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Author Bio

  • NameMike Mills
  • DescriptionMulti-instrumentalist for American alternative rock band R.E.M.
  • AliasesMichael Edward Mills
  • BornDecember 17, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBassist; Keyboardist; Musician; Songwriter