George Miller
In 2006, George Miller received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, a moment that drew attention to the range of a career that had moved between starkly different genres while remaining rooted in a consistent engagement with cinematic storytelling.
Miller was born on March 3, 1945, in Chinchilla, Australia. He was educated at the University of New South Wales and has worked across an unusually broad set of roles — as a director, screenwriter, producer, television producer, actor, and writer. He is also a physician, a credential that sits alongside his decades of work in film and television. Throughout his career he has worked in English.
His filmmaking took a defining shape in 1979, when he began directing the Mad Max franchise, which he is widely known for creating. He directed every film in the series from that year onward, sustaining a creative relationship with that world across several decades. Alongside the Mad Max films, Happy Feet stands as another notable work in his filmography, and it was for an animated feature that he earned his Academy Award, reflecting a range that extends from post-apocalyptic action to family animation.
Miller has received recognition from institutions in both Australia and France. He holds the Officer of the Order of Australia as well as the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. These two honors reflect the international reach of a career that began in Australia and extended well beyond it. His continued direction of every film in the Mad Max franchise, from its 1979 origins onward, remains the most concrete measure of his long commitment to that singular creative project.
Quotes by George Miller
The federal government, especially the president of the United States, has not stepped up to his part of the compact.
At the same time, their bill creates a new system of giveaways to developers and real estate speculators regardless of whether their land claims are legitimate and with no limits on how much the taxpayer will be asked to pay, ... This action will produce harmful consequences for taxpayers and devastating consequences for endangered animals, fish, and plants.
It's rather unusual that any prosecutor would pass up the opportunity to grab an absolute key, central witness that's in plain sight.
At least those wages will be protected where federal money is involved, and that's very important to the economy of that region. This is why we couldn't understand how the president could take such a callous position immediately after the hurricane to just decimate the protections for the wages of people who are trying to rebuild their families, their communities, their lives.
A major earthquake near the Delta or a severe break in Delta levees would cause significant flooding at great human and economic cost for the (San Francisco) Bay area and the state, ... Congress needs to provide this funding before it's too late.
It would be unconscionable for the House to continue to do business as usual, ... when the voices and needs of millions of hard-working American families have been closed out of the people's house.
Looking at it from a money point of view, I think we did the right thing. We knew it was going to pass.