George Miller: “AI is here to stay and change things”
Ryan Lambie
October 9, 2025 - Film Stories UK
Mad Max and Happy Feet filmmaker George Miller has spoken enthusiastically about generative AI, which is a “dynamically evolving tool”, he says.
Australian director George Miller made his name with the petrol-stained, gritty Mad Max, but he’s now a firm advocate for the slick, computerised world of generative AI. As it’s announced that the filmmaker is on the judging panel at a Sydney-based film festival dedicated to AI, Miller has spoken positively about the technology and its impact on his industry.
“AI is arguably the most dynamically evolving tool in making moving image,” Miller told The Guardian. “As a filmmaker, I’ve always been driven by the tools. AI is here to stay and change things.”
Like other generative AI advocates, Miller draws the comparison between it and earlier technological breakthroughs, including oil paint (“Some argued that true artists should be able to commit to the canvas without corrections, others embraced the new flexibility”) and the camera (“photography became its own form, painting continued”.)
“It’s the balance between human creativity and machine capability, that’s what the debate and the anxiety is about,” Miller said. “It strikes me how this debate echoes earlier moments in art history.”
