George Miller muistetaan ehkä parhaiten Mad Max -elokuvien ohjaajana. Hän on nyt ollut tapetilla Idris Elban tähdittämän elokuvan Three Thousand Years Of Longing vanavedessä. Siinä sivussa Miller on puhunut paljon myös Mad Maxista ja tulevasta Furiosa-elokuvasta.
Miller paljasti AV Club -lehdelle, ettei ole koskaan ymmärtänyt, miksi Mad Max kohosi niin suureen suosioon.
"From the first Mad Max which I thought was specifically centered in Australia, I was really quite astonished and didn't understand for a long time why it succeeded in Japan, why they saw it as a samurai movie, why in France they equated it to the American Western, a Western on wheels. Scandinavia saw Max as a lone Viking warrior or a Norse warrior. Until then, I had never heard of Joseph Campbell and just a little bit about [Carl Jung]. But then I suddenly realized the film didn't have those resonances because I was particularly clever. It's that I tapped into something unconsciously. I believe that's happened ever since. Fury Road seemed to anticipate the times, but that was conceived and we were about to shoot at least a decade before. But there were consistent behaviors in us as human beings that seemed to amplify those things. And so I don't think anybody can do that, as much as you try to. You're certainly aware of it. But it's only once the story's being told that people either receive that or not, and make of it what they like."
Kiitokset, AV Club