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Timothy Miller Biography

Timothy A. Miller (born 1944) is a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas at Lawrence. He has been involved in the Communal Studies Association (US) and Utopian Studies Society (Europe), and is Past President of the International Communal Studies Association (Israel). He has a particular interest in intentional communities and new religious movements. His son is Aber Miller, noted 'sweetheart jazz man' of Humboldt County.

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I think actors, they maybe want more approval than I'm used to giving. Everybody does. Everybody needs a hug you know, all the time. I'm not very good at that. I could get better at that.

Actors, Everybody, Giving, Hug, Needs, Thinking

I'm definitely not afraid to be wrong.

Afraid, Definitely, Not Afraid, Wrong

I don't want to make a movie for 100,000 fans that nobody else in the world sees, because I don't think that's good for the character.

100000, Character, Fans, Make, Movie, Thinking

Once you get cocky that's when you start to, A, turn into an asshole to everybody and, B, make mistakes because you stop listening to people or they stop telling you because you're a cocky asshole. So I'm going to try and eat my humble pie every morning for breakfast and just hope that it turns out OK.

Hope, Humble, Mistake, Mistakes, Morning

I'm not afraid to make decisions. One of my friends said. . . we were talking about movies. It's really just a series of decisions you make. They said, "Tim Miller: frequently wrong, but never in doubt. " I don't know that I'm making the right ones, but I'm not afraid to make them. That keeps the train moving forward.

Decisions You Make, Forward, Moving, Said, Talking

Attention is the intention to live without reservation in the here-and-now.

Attention, Intention, Live, Reservations

There's a little burst of creativity being director followed by lots and lots of meetings and talking to people and more meetings. It's scary. And I can't believe anybody actually lets me do it. But it's going well so far.

Believe, Burst, Creativity, Scary, Talking

Being an animator, and I've directed tons of mo-cap, which really is about how do characters move through space.

Character, Characters, Moving, Space, Tons

Peter Parker has superpowers, but he still has trouble making rent every month. I identify with that in a way that I don't with, like, Superman, for instance. He's just less interesting because he's too perfect.

Identify, Instance, Interesting, Perfect, Superpowers, Way

I got into comics on John Byrne's run of the X-Men and the Dark Phoenix Saga. I got in around X-Men 95, right when it turned to the new X-Men. So that whole family, all those characters are kind of my favorite characters, just the X-Men world.

Character, Characters, Dark, Running, Turned, Whole

Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally similar to yourself.

Compassion, Important, Intention, See, Similar

Prada makes really nice bags and then somebody in China makes knockoffs. This is the knockoff version of the mutant world. You have Weapon X. you have government spending millions of dollars to make it, and then you have these guys who are making thugs out of people that they pull off the street, or who are damaged, or who have found themselves in terrible positions for some reason.

Found, Government, Knockoffs, Make, Nice, Thug

I'm friends with [David] Fincher. [James] Cameron gives me advice. I know a fair amount of directors who have been through it, and they all felt pretty confident that I would be fine when I got my shot. So their confidence made me feel confident.

Advice, Directors, Fine, Friends, Gives, Giving

Marvel does a great job of making their characters human.

Character, Characters, Doe, Job, Jobs, Marvel

To be on set every day with a whole bunch of people that know their job and my job a lot better than I do and I'm supposed to tell them what to do, that's very uncomfortable and awkward.

Awkward, Jobs, People, Set, Whole

Honestly, the most uncomfortable thing for me is my level of incompetence is uncomfortable.

Incompetence, Level, Levels, Thing, Uncomfortable

I function better in an atmosphere of inner insecurity and fear.

Atmosphere, Fear, Insecurity, Insecurity And Fear

Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.

Belief, Blessing, Different, Gratitude, Minute, Possible

There's the larger shiny Marvel universe where everybody has new gear and it's all made of chrome and leather. And then there's Deadpool. I think the world that he explores is a much seedier, everyday sort of ordinary type world. But he still lives in that universe. It still has to sit next to all these other films.

Everyday, Gear, Larger, Ordinary, Thinking, Type

I think if you do what I want to do creatively, it will also make money for you.

Make, Making Money, Money, Think, Thinking, Want