‘Mad Max’ Director George Miller Says ‘AI Is Here to Stay and Change Things’: ‘It’s Way More Egalitarian’ and Will Make Filmmaking ‘Available to Anyone Who Has a Calling to It’
By Elsa Keslassy
Oct 9, 2025 - Variety
While the majority of Hollywood is fearful of the impact artificial intelligence could have on the industry — most recently in the form of AI actress Tilly Norwood — “Mad Max” director George Miller likens it to how the Renaissance movement affected painting.
Speaking to The Guardian ahead of leading a jury at the Omni AI Film Festival in Australia, Miller said the debate around AI “echoes earlier moments in art history,” particularly during the Renaissance era, when the introduction of oil painting “gave artists the freedom to revise and enhance their work over time.”
“That shift sparked controversy – some argued that true artists should be able to commit to the canvas without corrections, others embraced the new flexibility,” Miller told The Guardian. “A similar debate unfolded in the mid-19th century with the arrival of photography. Art has to evolve. And while photography became its own form, painting continued. Both changed, but both endured. Art changed.”
