Mike Mills

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

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

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.

I love Hindi films.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.