George Miller

Birthday: 3 March 1945, Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia

Birth Name: George Miliotis

Height: 170 cm

George Miller is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and former medical doctor. He is best known for his Mad Max franchise, with Mad Max 2 (1981) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) being hailed as amongst the greatest action films of all time. Aside from the Mad Max films, Miller has been involved in a wide range of projects. These include the Academy Award-winning Babe (1995) and Happy Feet (2006) film series.Miller is co-founder of the production houses Kennedy Miller Mitchell, formerly known as Kennedy Miller, and Dr. D Studios. His younger brother Bill Miller and Doug Mitchell have been producers on almost all the films in Miller's later career, since the death of his original producing partner Byron Kennedy.In 2006, Miller won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Happy Feet (2006). He has been nominated for five other Academy Awards: Best Original Screenplay in 1992 for Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay in 1995 for Babe (1995), and Best Picture and Best Director for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Show less «

I just love action movies. For me, the most universal language and the purest syntax of cinema is in...Show more »

I just love action movies. For me, the most universal language and the purest syntax of cinema is in the action movies. [2015] Show less «

There's only one perfect place for the camera at any given time. And I learned that on the animation...Show more »

There's only one perfect place for the camera at any given time. And I learned that on the animations. You can move the camera wherever you like. But to tell the story - it was interesting how much you could influence the story by simply shooting from another perspective. [2014] Show less «

[about the world of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)] All of the catastrophic events we read about in the n...Show more »

[about the world of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)] All of the catastrophic events we read about in the news - economic collapse, power grids breaking down, wholesale climate change, some nuclear skirmish on the other side of the globe - as of next Wednesday, all of those things will have happened. Then we jump 45 years into the future. There, we have a world that has regressed back to almost medieval behavior. Only the artifacts of the present world survive. For instance, the kind of vehicles we have now, which rely so much on computers, really wouldn't survive in a postapocalyptic world. But the hot rods and muscle cars not only survive, they become almost fetishized, like religious artifacts. [2015] Show less «

Roman Polanski, a master filmmaker, said there is only one perfect place for the camera at any given...Show more »

Roman Polanski, a master filmmaker, said there is only one perfect place for the camera at any given time. When you shoot animation, and you have exactly the same performance, exactly the same words, exactly the same lighting, but you shift the camera, you're virtually able to prove that. You can experiment with the camera in animation with no cost. And you would find, as best as you could, that ideal place... That's why I think some of the best filmmaking comes out of places like Pixar and DreamWorks and all the animation houses, because they know where they can put the camera. [2015] Show less «

The way I think of filmmaking - it's such a seductive thing. It encompasses every human discipline y...Show more »

The way I think of filmmaking - it's such a seductive thing. It encompasses every human discipline you can imagine - composition, art, technology, music, movement and choreography. It encompasses all life. We are the servants of the zeitgeist and we live in a chaotic world. There is so much information coming at you, we are trying to find resonances out there to create some kind of meaning. Stories are a way of distilling something out of all that bombardment. They are a way of finding signal in the noise. That's very seductive. Very. Show less «

[on Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)] In the 30-odd years since not only has the world changed, cinema has ...Show more »

[on Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)] In the 30-odd years since not only has the world changed, cinema has changed. The way we experience films has changed. And I've changed too. [2015] Show less «

Bernard Herrmann said that cinema is a mosaic art. It's all the little pieces that go together that ...Show more »

Bernard Herrmann said that cinema is a mosaic art. It's all the little pieces that go together that make up the whole. So you find those little pieces. [2015] Show less «

[on the character Max Rockatansky] He's all of us, amplified. Each of us in our own way is looking f...Show more »

[on the character Max Rockatansky] He's all of us, amplified. Each of us in our own way is looking for meaning in a chaotic world. He's got that one instinct-to survive. After the first Mad Max (1979), we went to Japan and they said, "We know this character, he's a ronin, like a samurai." In Scandinavia they called him a lone, wandering Viking. To others he's a classic American Western figure. [2015] Show less «

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