George Miller

Overview

Born
March 3, 1945 · Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia
Birth name
George Miliotis
Height
5′ 7″ (1.70 m)

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His versatility with the genres and subject matters of the films he directs

Trivia

Raised money to make Mad Max (1979) by working as an Emergency Room Doctor.
Warner Bros. gave him the rights to Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) to get him to step aside as the director of Contact (1997).
George was a practising physician until, after a film course at Melbourne University he teamed up with Byron Kennedy to make Violence in the Cinema, Part 1 (1971).
Was set to direct Contact (1997) but was replaced by Warner Bros studio due to creative differences on the project and the delay of the whole production start date. Miller was replaced by Robert Zemeckis.
In 2007 he was set to direct a film adaptation of DC comic's Justice League. Miller started the preproduction and casting but the project was put on indefinite hold due to the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike and finally canceled.

Quotes

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