George Miller The Doof Warrior tested badly because we had temp music and he always played the same riff and people found it annoying. A couple of people at the studio said, "Oh, we've got to drop the Doof Warrior!" I said, "No, no. It's way too early to even think of that." Now, what I knew and no one else knew is that his music was going to evolve and eventually that would become part of the full orchestration of the story... Cory Watson The Doof Warrior has become this iconic cult symbol of the film... ...So, if he was getting notes to cut out the Doof Warrior, that's obviously an example of how the screening process, if not done properly, has the potential for great damage.

Doug Mitchell George assembled fourteen versions of the film that we tested.

—Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan

Shyam "Toast" Yadav If you're doing a movie and there's one weird scene, the studio might be like, "No, you have to cut that scene out." But if every single scene is weird, that's just the movie. Margaret Sixel They were just afraid of it. I mean, it is pretty wacky and out there—it's kind of dark, with a strange humor. They didn't like the scene with the stillborn baby and the umbilical cord, and they didn't like all these weird, ugly people: "No ugly people allowed!" Even the scene with Nux where he eats the bug, they were like, "Nooooo! He can't eat the bug!" It was a struggle, totally.

Richard Lawson Even though Max goes off into the desert at the end of the movie, he at least knows that there are still decent people out there. And maybe it's enough to know, Children of Men style, that the human experiment has not completely ended. At the very least, helping those people exist has helped him exist.

Ryan Osmond (additional assistant director) A lot of those people came out of agencies, but they also drove a couple of coaches into the city and would pick up homeless guys. Shane Kavanagh In Sydney, there's a central station in the city and a lot of homeless people live around there. They would take a bus in every day and fill it up with these homeless people and bring them to set. Most of them were just happy to be working. Ryan Osmond They were the best behaved and the most excited. We would feed them for breakfast, lunch, dinner, give them a shower before they went home, and those guys got paid for it, too.