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I wanted to attempt to solve things in real time, he says.
Credit: Kerry Hayes
I learned that fromBirdman.
It was worth it, according to them.
Not that his vision was always easy to communicate.
NICOLE SPERLING
LENNY ABRAHAMSON,ROOM
The odds were never in Lenny Abrahamsons favor.
To make a totally uncompromised film version of her book, Abrahamson pleaded, he should be the director.
Thats particularly true given that he was considered a dark horse for a nomination.
I was absolutely flummoxed and flabbergasted when I heard my name, he says.
Its wonderful that not everything in life is so predictable.
Who better to see the farce within the fiasco?
What were we paying attention to?
This pop culture noise thats always around us.
We knew it was breaking some primary rules of filming, he says.
But you let the story tell you what you have to do.
It just felt like that had to be the way.
Like his characters, McKay was the oddball who saw the big picture.
JEFF LABRECQUE
GEORGE MILLER,MAD MAD: FURY ROAD
Nothing is accidental.
Not the chrome spray in Nuxs mouth, nor the wire skull that adorns Furiosas steering wheel.
And it has earned him his first Oscar nod for directing.
Miller prefers to run his sets like a partnership with his cast and crew.
It all felt very collaborative, says costar Charlize Theron.
It was very authentic and organic.
Fury Roadhas to be seen in a cinema; the experience would be diminished at home.
In many ways, its got to be there, with the congregation of people in the dark.
Hopefully, we did that.
And, like all journalists, they were aided by their sources.
To get a favorable response from them is as important to me as anything.
