Be cool, everybody: George Miller is still on board for more Mad Max movies

That seemed to contradict pretty much every other interview he’s given during Fury Road’s glorious journey to Oscars Valhalla, where he said he has ideas for the sequels—which, frustratingly, don’t include much Furiosa—and that he’d like to do “something a bit smaller before we go back out into the wasteland.” None of that constitutes a formal commitment to direct, sure. But still, if he has all these ideas and doesn’t want to direct them (the job is his to turn down, presumably), that would be the biggest flip-flop this side of Sea World.

And now that’s he’s been nominated for a Best Director Oscar for Mad Max: Fury Road—one of the film’s 10 total nominations—Miller has confirmed that he’s still in the post-apocalyptic saddle. Telling The Hollywood Reporter that what he told Adams had become “a bit jumbled,” and that “I was saying I didn’t want to do Mad Max right away. … I have a few other stories to tell. I wanted to do something small and fast,” reinforcing what he told Entertainment Weekly the week before. For now, though, Miller says his plans are to have a cup of tea—presumably one flavored with mother’s milk.