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Mike Mills had a life changing experience with music in his teenage years as a SoCal skate punk and went on to design album covers and direct music videos before his successful career directing features. He gravitates towards observational songs that report on the world around us and combine elements that don’t seem like they should work together, from the Beatles to the Beastie Boys. Mike is nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the upcoming Spirit Awards for his film Beginners.
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Mike Mills had a life changing experience with music in his teenage years as a SoCal skate punk and went on to design album covers and direct music videos before his successful career directing features. He gravitates towards observational songs that report on the world around us and combine elements that don’t seem like they should work together, from the Beatles to the Beastie Boys. Mike is nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the upcoming Spirit Awards for his film Beginners.
Transcript
Chris Douridas: Hi, I’m Chris Douridas and I’m here with Mike Mills whose autobiographical film, Beginners, has gotten a great amount of critical acclaim. Mike also has a history in music, making videos for artists like Moby and designing album covers for the Beastie Boys and more. What don’t you do? (Mike laughs).
We’re going to be playing some excerpts of songs you’ve picked out for us.
Mike Mills: Well, I was fairly serious skateboarder. I grew up in Santa Barbara, but I would come down for contests all the time at the skate parks. And all the skate parks had speakers in the actual bowls that you skated in, so I remember hearing like The Damned. The first time I heard it, it was like so caustic and impossible sounding. Like, ‘what is this noise?’, you know. But by the time I got home, I was like ‘this is the future’. Or this is so door opening. This is so wonderfully opposite of my...
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Host: Chris Douridas
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