Time Out New York: Mike Mills--"I don't own Death"

Time Out New York’s film critic David Fear talks with Beginners’ writer/director Mike Mills and his star Ewan McGregor for his piece “Mourning glory: Mike Mills and Ewan McGregor.” The piece is candid and quite funny. At one point, Mills explains how this movie is personal, but not really about him.

…honestly, the idea was never, ‘Let’s make a $4 million home movie of the Mills family with big-name stars in it!’ My hope was always that, if I make something fictional but as personal as possible, and really get the details right—the way a hospital room looks, the phone calls you make to get a loved one’s body taken to a morgue—that the story would end up being something universal. It isn’t all my story, though. Trust me, I don’t own death.