Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson
Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson AOis an American actor and filmmaker. Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, and moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia, when he was 12 years old...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth3 January 1956
CityPeekskill, NY
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The Passion' is a movie meant to inspire not offend. My intention in bringing it to the screen is to create a lasting work of art and engender serious thought among audiences of diverse faith backgrounds.
among art audiences create diverse faith lasting serious work
to create a lasting work of art and engender serious thought among audiences of diverse faith backgrounds (or none) who have varying familiarity with this story.
art real thinking
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.
art lying acting
Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
audience films focus people silent
The audience will have to focus on the visuals... But they had silent films before talkies arrived, and people went to see them.
budgets nasty three tiny weeks
It was a cheap, nasty movie that was cranked out in three weeks on a tiny budget.
almost shake stale utterly
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.
cheapen good hard special turn
I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more special when it's not a daily occurrence. It doesn't cheapen it so much.
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Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to something a little higher, you're just kicking your butt around the corner. You can only take so much of that. You have to have some sort of foundation to explode from.
Boy, there's nothing more thrilling than a chase. I'd often thought, over the years, that someone should do a whole film where it's nothing but a chase.
This film will not be as bloody; it will be a little more tasteful.
guy integrity
This guy has a sense of integrity, but it's very misguided.
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It's set before the Conquest, so there are no European faces, and we are using mostly indigenous people and actors from Mexico City,
although creating integral mythic position
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