205 Quotes by Mel Gibson

This guy has a sense of integrity, but it's very misguided.

Although (the Mayan culture) is an integral part of the story, what I am doing is creating an action-adventure of mythic proportions ... and I am a megalomaniac, so I like the position

It's set before the Conquest, so there are no European faces, and we are using mostly indigenous people and actors from Mexico City,

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

It was a cheap, nasty movie that was cranked out in three weeks on a tiny budget.

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.

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.

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.

Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.