Latest Mel Gibson Quotes from Interviews

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• I was known for being a bit of a clown. I remember my dad got me aside and said, "Just remember, everybody likes a clown, but nobody pays him." I've often been tempted to call him and say, "Remember how you told me...?" "Yeah?" "Yes, they do."

  Mel Gibson

  Dad, Pay, Likes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I'm not much of a conformist.

  Mel Gibson

  Conformist

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• I rarely lose my temper anymore.

  Mel Gibson

  Temper, Loses

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• I get pretty dark sometimes, pretty bleak. But that passes.

  Mel Gibson

  Dark, Sometimes, Bleak

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• I'm Hitler and my dad is Mussolini!

  Mel Gibson

  Dad, My Dad

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I'm not apologizing to anyone. I'll apologize when hell freezes over.

  Mel Gibson

  Apologizing, Hell, Freeze

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

  Mel Gibson

  World, Trends, Politician

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I've got one of Darwin's books at home and some of that stuff is pretty damn funny. Some of his stuff is true, like that the giraffe has a long neck so it can reach the leaves. But I just don't think you can swallow the whole piece.

  Mel Gibson

  Book, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• The guy who's in charge isn't going to be the front man, ever.

  Mel Gibson

  Men, Guy, Fronts

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• There are certain things men will never understand about women. We'll never get it. And you're supposed to be nice to them. Because they can hurt you.

  Mel Gibson

  Hurt, Nice, Men

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 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.

  Mel Gibson

  Feminist, Problem, Don't Like Me

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I had a female business partner once. Didn't work.

  Mel Gibson

  Female, Partners, Business Partners

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Women are just different. Their sensibilities are different.

  Mel Gibson

  Different, Sensibility

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Women in my family are the center of things. All good things emanate from them. The guys usually mess up.

  Mel Gibson

  Guy, My Family, Good Things

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I have tremendous respect for women. I love them. I don't know why they want to step down.

  Mel Gibson

  Want, Steps, Respect Women

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• Men and women are not equal.

  Mel Gibson

  Men, Men And Women, Equal

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• I'll get kicked around for saying it, but men and women are just different. They're not equal. The same way that you and I are not equal.

  Mel Gibson

  Men, Different, Way

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Sometimes you got to a point where it wasn't happening and you had to figure out another way to do it, particularly in terms of making the jaguar do what you wanted. That was not CG, a real guy had to run really fast and not trip. There was a form of restraint on the creature that you can't see. so it was all very safe - but it is real.

  Mel Gibson

  Running, Real, Guy

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• Nobody makes art for an elite, not if they're a real artist. You try and reach as many people as possible with whatever it is that you make. If a chef is making an omelette, he wants everyone to think that it tastes great because he did it. And if it does, then that's a success because everyone eats it.

  Mel Gibson

  Art, Real, Thinking

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• You can access that on many levels and the human spirit and the human mind responds to those themes because they recognise the veracity of them. That they are real things. Sometimes it even goes beyond logic, it's just a sense of something.

  Mel Gibson

  Real, Mind, Levels

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• There are certain things that I will do viscerally to affect people emotionally, with speed changes and sound, and various other things. Sure there are links; the same kind of sensibilities went into it and I worked on writing that script as well so there was an emphasis on a minimalisation of dialogue as far as possible, to focus on the visual and to put it in another language, of course.

  Mel Gibson

  Writing, People, Focus

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• There are messages about civilisations and we are trying to be true to history as much as possible. We wanted all this to gel with some good theory about why these civilisations went down, why they weakened and crumbled. Because they did, they vanished.

  Mel Gibson

  Trying, Messages, Theory

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• If you just read Joseph Campbell, who has written amazing books on mythology and religion, they all do come together at some point. There are some of the greatest stories that there have ever been in the Bible. All you have to do is read the book of Maccabi, it's like a film script.

  Mel Gibson

  Book, Together, Stories

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• The really good thing about using people who are really green is that you don't have to erase a bunch of bad habits and then put good ones in. You can just start feeding them good habits.

  Mel Gibson

  Using People, Green, Habit

  "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

• We all present a version of ourselves whether you've got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why?

  Mel Gibson

  Real, Hands, Puppets

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. September 20, 2012.