George Miller
George Miller AO (born 3 March 1945) is an Australian filmmaker. Over the course of four decades he has received critical and popular success creating the Mad Max franchise, starting in 1979, with two of the films having been hailed as two of the greatest action films of all time. He has also earned numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award. Miller rose to prominence directing the dystopian action-adventure films Mad Max (1979), Mad M
Defining films
In their own words
The one thing they all have in common is a strong narrative, but the narrative comes out of the action. It's not dialogue.
The things I've learnt from him [Akira Kurosawa] are about gesture and behaviour and not dialogue to tell a story. And that applied to Babe as well as Mad Max and Happy Feet and Lorenzo's Oil.
I wanted it to be like a fable, a dark fairytale. I looked at filmmakers like Fellini, who could bring that kind of magical realism into his work, where people just accept extraordinary things as part of their world.
Critical context
In a 1979 interview, just prior to the release of his debut feature Mad Max, George Miller gave an encapsulated account of his understanding of film style to Peter Beilby and Scott Murray, from Australia’s Cinema Papers . The film had yet to become an enormous success, and so Miller was only just starting out on the path to becoming the foremost commercial titan of Australian cinema. He was likely bitter and dispirited at the time, Max ’s shoot had been difficult, and its post-production long…
