From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

It's The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

Since 1979, my guest, Dr. George Miller has been making movies, and I've known him almost since he got started making movies.

And I've always been fascinated with the way that his movies bring together the probable and the impossible characters wanting to realize a dream.

And I think his newest film and adaptation of the A.S.

By Short Story, which has turned into 3,000 years of long game, I think both is a departure from

what he's done before and dovetails so beautifully before he's done before. So, George, first of all,

thanks so much for doing this. And we were talking for this show.

I mean, I think this movie is a break from what you've done, but it also fits in with

that as well, doesn't it?

Yes, Elvis, it's a break.

I mean, you're looking for something to be uniquely familiar, always.

Something fresh, but something also grounded in what is inevitably the things that

you are interested in.

Not that I've ever heard it articulated that way, but I think it's very clear.

Yes, I mean, this film is, well, when you compare it to the last one, Fury Road, it's in many ways the direct

opposite.

This is almost all indoors.

That film was very laconic.

This one is the basic conflict is through words as well as action.

That shot in not too much more screen time, had about four times the number of cuts of it.

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