Miller on Filmmaking

"In Australia, you can be a little more experimental with the way you work. With many of my movies, I found I was learning more here than I did in the States. We had done a TV series called The Dismissal, a highly collaborative workshop piece. It was probably one of the most intense learning experiences that I had in filmmaking. I found that, if I could do something like that here, I could learn much faster. [But] if I went in and worked on a studio picture......"

When making a film, Miller admits to being obsessive, keeping cast and crew working for three 14-hour days in a row. Once he begins working, time stops for Miller and he needs somebody to remind him that he, too, is human and needs rest.

Miller is known for being very open to suggestions. "We're all on the same train, on the same journey, so I would be crazy to ignore any suggestions. Sometimes, I'm desperate for them. When you have very good people working with you, it's a wonderful process, because so much good energy comes out.

"I don't believe anyone can make a film not of a collaborative nature. A writer can write alone, without collaborating. But if anything is collaborative by nature, surely filmmaking is. It takes on its own life, like an organism. What's interesting is that, the more you collaborate with other people, the freer you are. I don't think you have a true piece of work until everybody's work is elevated by everybody else's."