Mike Mills

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

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.

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.

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.

I love Hindi films.

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.