Mel Gibson Speaks

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
Mel Gibson

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
Mel Gibson

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
Mel Gibson

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
Mel Gibson

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.
Mel Gibson

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.
Mel Gibson

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.
Mel Gibson

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.
Mel Gibson

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.
Mel Gibson

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.
Mel Gibson

I wanted to shake up the stale action-adventure genre. So I think we almost had to come up with something utterly different like this.
Mel Gibson

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
Mel Gibson

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.
Mel Gibson

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.
Mel Gibson

If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script.
Mel Gibson

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.
Mel Gibson

That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.
Mel Gibson

The audience will have to focus on the visuals... But they had silent films before talkies arrived, and people went to see them.
Mel Gibson

The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.
Mel Gibson

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.
Mel Gibson

Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.
Mel Gibson

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.
Mel Gibson