"I like LA 'cause it's sort of blank, I'm not super-influenced by eight million cool things happening around me like I would be in New York. It's quieter so I can figure out what I'm thinking. Weirdly, LA helps me do more personal work," Thumbsucker director and graphic artist Mike Mills tells Blankscreenmedia in a brief, comic Q&A. "I love time travel, do it often. I most like going back to just after World War I in Europe, visiting the Dadaists and the beginnings of what would become the Bauhuas scene. I'm not so interested in re-design[ing] anything, but I'd love to see and feel what it was like when those people were making those things, I think the art world really has developed little since all those strategies began. But what do I know about such things, I live in LA after all, and talk to my dog all day."