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