"If you’re not dispossessed, then why make art? If you’re not feeling pretty rejected in a lot of stuff, you probably feel just a bit more content and not have this need to save your life making something."
- Mike Mills (Beautiful Losers)

Ewan McGregor and Mike Mills on-set of Beginners (2010)

Ewan McGregor and Mike Mills on-set of Beginners (2010)

Mike Mills and Ewan McGregor on the set of Beginners. 

Mike Mills and Ewan McGregor on the set of Beginners. 

awards-season: Read excerpts from The Hollywood Reporter’s Directors Roundtable, which features Jason Reitman (Young Adult), Steve McQueen (Shame), Bennett Miller (Moneyball), Alexander Payne (The Descendants), Mike Mills (Beginners) and Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist).

awards-season:

Read excerpts from The Hollywood Reporter’s Directors Roundtable, which features Jason Reitman (Young Adult), Steve McQueen (Shame), Bennett Miller (Moneyball), Alexander Payne (The Descendants), Mike Mills (Beginners) and Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist).

awards-season: Read excerpts from The Hollywood Reporter’s Directors Roundtable, which features Jason Reitman (Young Adult), Steve McQueen (Shame), Bennett Miller (Moneyball), Alexander Payne (The Descendants), Mike Mills (Beginners) and Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist).

awards-season:

Read excerpts from The Hollywood Reporter’s Directors Roundtable, which features Jason Reitman (Young Adult), Steve McQueen (Shame), Bennett Miller (Moneyball), Alexander Payne (The Descendants), Mike Mills (Beginners) and Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist).

Mike Mills and wife Miranda July

Mike Mills and wife Miranda July

kuamasi: Mike Mills

kuamasi:

Mike Mills

Director Mike Mills and Actress Melanie Laurent discussing Beginners (part of the interview is in French, but not much).

Director Mike Mills with Arthur from Beginners (2011)

Director Mike Mills with Arthur from Beginners (2011)

Ewan McGregor and Mike Mills on the set of Beginners

Ewan McGregor and Mike Mills on the set of Beginners