Mike Mills
Mike Mills
Michael Edward "Mike" Millsis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth17 December 1958
CityOrange County, CA
CountryUnited States of America
The best thing ... is the kids are hard workers. We're all about the same level.
We all ended up where we wanted to be, but the path wasn't so straight.
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.
There's some things that you learn as you're shooting, and as you're editing that are key, because when you start you don't have the brain that can finish it. You don't really know what it is, and that's the key job; figuring out what you actually have, not what you're dreaming of having.
A lot of people think they can't help directly with the Hurricane Katrina, but if you come out to 'Burgers at the Beach' Thursday night, you can.
This is not communism here. In my opinion they add value to my property.
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.
It's not perfect. I have problems with it. But as a learning experience, it was a great practice exercise.
It makes it increasingly difficult to fill the work orders we already have.
It was really the actors who gave me the confidence to see this through in a way. They didn't need to be convinced. Each one of them was there for me when I needed them and every conversation, every exchange of ideas, turned out to be the highpoint of this first feature experience.
It was awesome to look behind me and see Bill on drums.
It's a very sweet and often problematic situation where people feel like they know me and they're concerned for me. It creates these strange little intimate moments.
There's nothing like a movie. It's the one art form that can really make me cry, and the thing is, we're all filmmakers. We're all creating movies in our heads all the time on our internal projection screens. To have the experience of playing out that movie, and making it real, it was very moving... in fact, I was crying my eyes out last night because I was thinking of how special the whole thing was,
The whole set was very intense, ... Lou and Kelli have some weird thing with each other.