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.

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• Mike Mills:

  Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am

• Mike Mills:

  I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big

• Mike Mills:

  It's a very sweet and often problematic situation where people feel like they know me and they're c

• Mike Mills:

  The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.

• Mike Mills:

  I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but

• Mike Mills:

  OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay an

• Mike Mills:

  My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I t

• Mike Mills:

  My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships -

• Mike Mills:

  There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I

• Mike Mills:

  I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.