It’s about a man running away from his better self, and his better self catches up to him. It’s about a man that is ‘apart from,’ at the beginning; he becomes a part *of* at the end. The premise of it was that what’s broken is healed by love only. So these are organizing ideas that underpin not only the story, but how it’s going to be made and produced. In trying to articulate them, eventually, even as far as production, those ideas began to subtly change the choices that were made about the story. Not so much the storyboards, but the actual way the movie was made, and therefore what might be in any one of those hundred and fifty thousand frames.“
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“For the character of Max, we had a little slogan written above the Electro-board, which said, ‘Engage to heal,’ which means, as you become engaged, healing can happen, emotionally and spiritually.
The Art of Mad Max: Fury Road, regarding underlying themes and Max’s characterization (via superhumandisasters)