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

- Mike Mills
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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 our natural part of it.

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.

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

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

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.

I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.

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.

When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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