For those concerned about the content of this film, know that it conforms to the narratives of Christ's passion and death found in the four Gospels of the New Testament This is a movie about faith, hope, love and forgiveness - something sorely needed in these turbulent times.
I'm not a preacher, and I'm not a pastor. But I really feel my career was leading me to make The Passion of the Christ The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic. I hope the film has the power to evangelize. Hollywood is a factory. You have to realize that you are working in a factory and you're part of the mechanism. If you break down, you'll be replaced. The precursors to a civilization that's going under are the same, time and time again.
What's human sacrifice if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason? I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes. 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. I was subjected to a pretty brutal public beating. The film came out and, you could have heard a pin drop. Not even the crickets weren't chirping. But the other thing I never heard was one single word of apology. I thought I dealt with that stuff.
But the human heart can bear the scars of resentment, and it will come out when you're overwrought and you take a few drinks. My dad taught me my faith. I believe what he taught me.
The man never lied to me in his life. People said, 'Well, he's just an old kook. He's very intelligent. He's in complete possession of all his mental faculties. And if he says something he has a reason why he says it and he can back it up. Mensa wanted this guy, okay? I don't want to be the star of a movie anymore. I felt like sending Michael Richards a note.
I feel really badly for the guy. He was obviously in a state of stress. You don't need to be inebriated to be bent out of shape. But my heart went out to the guy. They'll probably torture him for a while and then let him go. I like him. I've been chased by automobiles doing dangerous things on the freeway. People have tried to spit on me.
It's made me totally paranoid. One day a gay group confronted me. They had signs, they were screaming and frothing at the mouth - pure hatred. It was wild. Everyone always presumes I'm a Republican. I'm not. I couldn't vote for either one of those guys in the last election.
I looked at the pair of them and was like, 'What do you want to do - get punched or get kicked? So I found somebody else on the ballot who was an independent who I liked the sound of. I can't even remember his name. I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time. I shouldn't have said it, but I was tickling a bit of vodka during that interview, and the quote came back to bite me on the ass.
I had really good highs but some very low lows. I found out recently I'm manic depressive. It's a hard game and everybody gets knifed at some point.
But what's become really clear to me is that it's not rocket science at the end of the day. I wish I had that youthful spring in my step I once had, but hopefully, in some ways, I'm a lot better as far as maturity goes.
Some people said that in telling the story we messed up history. It doesn't bother me because what I'm giving you is a cinematic experience, and I think films are there first to entertain, then teach, then inspire. There probably were historical inaccuracies - quite a few. But maybe there weren't, who's to say, because there was very little history about the man.
It wasn't necessarily authentic. In some of the stuff I read about him, he wasn't as nice as he was on film. We romanticised it a bit, but that's the language of film - you have to make it cinematically acceptable. Actually, he was a monster - he always smelled of smoke because he was always burning people's villages down.
He was like what the Vikings called a 'berserker'. But we kind of shifted the balance a bit because somebody's got to be the good guy and somebody the bad guy, and every story has its own point of view. That was our bias. William Wallace was around 28 when he died and I was already ten years older than that, although at least my knees weren't wrinkly! When all's said and done, I did a pretty good hatchet job on my marriage.
I'm to blame, if you're inclined to judge. Nobody is without sin. You have to try to make amends if you can. You have to shut up and move on and not whine about it. And you have to deal with it like a man. You've just got to accept your own culpability. I feel sorry for Tiger Woods. Why are we talking about this when we're sending 30, more troops to Afghanistan? He's being used as a diversion, and it just drives me crazy. I have aged.
It's just a natural part of the holy human condition. What am I going to do? Get surgery? That just looks weird. Besides, that must hurt, so what's the point? I think I'm a lot better because maturity brings things out. I just wish I had that youthful spring again. But it's a trade-off, right? I did have bodyguards for a little while but it's a drag.
If your number's up, its up. If I'm lying in bed and somebody comes into my room, I'll either wake up or I won't. And I'll either hit 'em with my big stick that I've got or my gun that I have stowed away Look, in this day and age, you've got to be tooled up.
I try and eat right but I don't work out much. I quit smoking so that's something in the right direction. I just don't do anything fun anymore. But that's dying, isn't it? You die in stages. You let things go in pieces. It's more than halfway through, right? Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant, unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, season you somehow and hopefully you learn from them.
Isn't that what it's about? The pause will inform the choices that you make. I kind of felt I was getting stale so being away for a while has been good.
I was drunk. It just turned into a big thing. I apologized profusely -- not once but three times. So what's the problem? It's four years ago. Do I need to apologize again? Barack Obama is a man with an impossible task on his hands.
He got left a mess and I wish him all the best but I don't think he's going to fix it in five minutes and probably not in his entire tenure. Night Shyamalan' told me I was just doing too much. I looked around and I was the oldest guy on the set and I felt like the least sophisticated.
I decided I needed to rethink everything. I got into this because I wanted to be good. I walked away because I don't know that I was bringing much new to anything. Another seven or eight years of living informs the choices one makes. You ask anybody what their number one fear is and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale and that's what I've been through. It changes you. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's really that simple. You can't do anything but live in the moment and leave the future in the hands of providence and don't regret the past too much.
Maybe just take a lesson from it. Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. I don't get their point. I don't know why feminists have it out for me, but that's their problem, not mine.
Depression is like that. It's somewhere one can be caught. You can get stuck there. Initially, it does stem from a certain amount of egotism. What does it do to everyone around in the family? It is an illness. It is a disease. And, I think there is a better understanding of it. A guy said to me one time, something really profound, and it's so simple. It's that depression lies.
It's a liar and you have to shut it down. There is nothing that alleviates it more than going out and doing something for someone else.
It's almost like instant healing. Get away from yourself. People can't even get out of bed and it gets really severe. I've never been at that stage. Everyone goes through low and high and low and high and some people are blessed to be created on an even keel all the way through - but not me. But there's a core of goodness there that's undeniable, and I just love her. It was amazing. I was 19 and I went to see it and it was really, really compelling.
And then there were all these stories: "The guy made it for no money! He's a master - so many great films. One of the best he made, people hardly recognized him for it: Empire of the Sun Phenomenal movie! The thing that bothered me about that was it seemed like nobody noticed, but it was this masterpiece! It's a great film. It still holds up because it's so basic. It didn't require any dialogue. Let the film do the talking. It's about energy, it didn't spare anyone - a girl gets it, a dog gets it.
It was the first Mad Max film but done better. The third one, Thunderdome, didn't work at all. He was an exceptional human being, an extraordinary talent, and he had no equal. He set his own benchmark and people have aspired to hit it. I don't think anyone quite did. So she pointed me in the right direction.
I thought "What the hell else am I going to do". There really wasn't much I wanted to do, and I'd never done anything like acting before. The first time I had to go on stage I was physically ill and couldn't stand up. My legs wouldn't support me. I had to do it sitting down. It was blind terror. We're all a bunch of different and contradictory bits. I'm no closer to explaining who I am than anyone else is.
How come those guys were there? Of course at the time I didn't know who they were. But I realized pretty quickly they were special. I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period. I don't blame some people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes, which have been edited. You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally, heated discussion at the height of a breakdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship.
It's one terribly awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn't represent what I truly believe or how I've treated people my entire life.
My character was, like the film suggests, a puppet. And I went with that. It wasn't some star thing, even though they advertised it that way.
On whether he'll return to action roles "I think I'm too old for that, but you never know. I just like telling stories. Entertainment is valid and I guess I'll probably do it again before it's over. You know, do something that people won't get mad with me for. On Peter Weir "I'd auditioned for an earlier film and he told me right up front, 'I'm not going to cast you for this part. Night Shyamalan's Signs , playing a rural Pennsylvania farmer whose life takes a drastic turn when foot crop circles begin appearing in his cornfields.
Mel Gibson returned to the director's chair for his next project, an ambitious film about the final 12 hours of Jesus Christ 's life entitled The Passion of the Christ The unlikely blockbuster made headlines for its controversial adaptation of the Crucifixion. A devout Catholic, Gibson stated at the time that the Holy Spirit was making the film through him: "I was just directing traffic," he said. Gibson's next historical epic, Apocalypto , released in December , focused on the decline of the Mayan civilization and was filmed in Yucatec Maya language with subtitles.
The film, which featured an Indigenous cast of Mexican and Native American actors, was critically acclaimed and a box office success. Not long after filming The Passion , Gibson was accused of being both an anti-Semite and a racist. He had pleaded "no contest" to a drunk-driving charge in , later admitting that he'd made anti-Semitic remarks during his arrest and openly acknowledging his battle with alcohol addiction.
He was sentenced to three years of probation, including mandatory Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. In the years following the incident, Gibson kept a relatively low profile. After years of directing and producing, Gibson stepped back in front of the camera for the thriller Edge of Darkness , starring as a police detective who investigates his daughter's death.
Amid more leaked remarks that only worsened his situation as a Hollywood pariah, Gibson starred in the film The Beaver with Jodie Foster , playing a suicidal man who bonds with his hand puppet. However, the role failed to soften his image or restart his acting career, and Gibson returned to the action genre for his next three roles on the silver screen: Get the Gringo , Machete Kills and The Expendables 3 Gibson found himself back on the upswing in with Hacksaw Ridge, his first directing effort in 10 years.
Based on true story about a conscientious objector during World War II who saved 75 soldiers without shooting a single bullet, the film was a modest success at the box office, but earned Gibson Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for his direction. Continuing his return to prominent standing within the industry, Gibson appeared at the Academy Awards in February , good-naturedly handling the barbs launched his way by host Jimmy Kimmel.
Later that year, Gibson was due to appear alongside Will Ferrell , Mark Wahlberg and John Lithgow in Daddy's Home 2 , and also teased fans about the possibility of a fifth installment of Lethal Weapon. In , Gibson married Robyn Moore. The couple had seven children together before filing for divorce in Shortly after his divorce proceedings began, Gibson began dating Russian singer Oksana Grigorieva. The couple had their first child shortly before splitting in Gibson came under investigation for domestic abuse soon after their separation, with taped phone conversations of the actor spouting racial slurs and admitting to hitting Grigorieva surfacing on the internet.
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