Miller has made a dazzling variety of films in his 50 year career and his latest, featuring Elba as a djinn alongside Tilda Swinton, is as strange as any of them. But would he rather have stayed a doctor?
, perched on his stool like some saloon-bar raconteur, half-drunk on the joys of film history and lit theory. He has covered Buster Keaton and Joseph Campbell, Indigenous art and the Queen of Sheba. He says we don’t even know whether the Queen of Sheba was real, but she’s real in the legends and what’s more real than a tale? “We’re creatures of story, we’re hardwired for story. That’s how we make sense of the world.
Miller was brought up in Queensland, Australia, by Greek immigrant parents, and for a time in his 20s he was leading two lives like Clark Kent: working as a doctor at St Vincent’s hospital in Brisbane one week, shooting his low-budget pictures the next. But naturally, he says, there was a pattern here, too.“Oh, I definitely would not be making films in the way I make them had it not been for medical school. First of all, it’s all about point of view.
‘When I said Babe was a hero on a journey, people looked at me like I was crazy. They said: ‘But George – it’s a talking pig.’’
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