“If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsFirstsCharacterStoriesHappensAsksPiecesLandEqualAsk MeLocationEcologicalViewpoints Author:Mike Mills
“My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.” YearsFirstsParentGriefRiskWillingFlowerSad ThingsHotterGoing For It Author:Mike Mills
“As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.” MenYearsRealOne ThingSonVivid Author:Mike Mills
