Mike Mills (II)

Mike Mills—Thumbsucker—08/08/05

Mike Mills on Thumbsucker

Ewan McGregor & Mike Mills—Beginners—4/22/11

[McGregor:] Research I find very boring...it’s all just whatever’s required for that character. And if it involves sitting in a library looking through research books, that—you won’t find me there, I don’t think.

Mike Mills—20th Century Women, Beginners, Thumbsucker—12/19/2016

How did I get to be this person? What's the history of me? And is it the right story?...And I like trying to get people I've known right on screen.

Thumbsucker (2005)

Kirn's sharp-tongued novel would suggest an Alexander Payne film rife with arch satire, but Mills ultimately goes for a more deeply affecting emotional study.

Beginners (2011)

Cuts the whimsy with melancholy...its case of the cutes isn’t terminal.