Mike Mills Quotes

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?

Place colors everything; It is the thing by which I find my way in my fiction.

Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.

Something that has been every important to me in all my projects has been location, the place where they are installed.

I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

History is not intelligible without geography.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

A sense of place is very important in writing.

I think you can tell any human story in a particular place.

Everything has to do with geography.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

I can't write anything if I don't know where it's set, where the events are happening - even if the details of setting are minimal.

My songs don't deal with locations that specifically, even if there are very specific references to them in there; they're sort of just where stories happen, not the stories themselves.

Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.

Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.