One of the things that struck me hardest about this film is how unusual some of the compositions are.
It seems like you use a lot more central framing than many other movies.
What were you thinking about here?
Was it an eye-tracking issue?
With something moving so quickly, and with so much action, it can become like visual noise.
Not disorienting but annoying, really.
There has to be a strong causal relationship between one shot and the next.
So central framing helps you to do this [in the visuals].
Its particularly important when youre doing a stereo conversion [for 3D release].
Thats the key to it.
Those shots are the ones where you use central framing.
Well, theyre not really connected in any very strict way.
This is someone we see in the classic westerns, in samurai stories.
You cant really put a chronology [of theMad Maxfilms] together.
They were never conceived that way.
They were all standalone films in many, many ways.
Like fragments of a bigger folklore.
Is it something technical, something in the craft, or something to do with theme?
Why would you ever come back to this world again?
Believe it or not, there are two more stories Im really interested in telling.
Its never technical, its always the gravitational pull of the story.
We ended up with two more, really interesting stories that I want to tell.
The technical aspects are always intriguing, but its something about the stories that you want to tell.
In real terms, whats happening with these other two stories?
Were in discussion with the studio about them… this movie took so long to make.
It just kept coming back, and here we are.
Making this film at all seems like an amazing feat.
I had some incredibly heroic colleagues, not the least of which was Doug Mitchell, my producing partner.
We call him The Honey Badger because he wont take no for an answer.
They were just a force, like a military force that kept on.
Theyre Never say die!
people, and here we are.
Even people in the music industry that Ive never encountered before.
Something about this movie just…
I dont know, just gets into them, I guess.
That always has to happen.
Its too hard to make a movie otherwise.
That process is what tells you which story you have made.
