Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson je americko-australský herec, režisér, filmový producent a scenárista s irskými předky. V Austrálii, kam se rodina v jeho 12 letech přestěhovala, vystudoval National Institute of Dramatic Art. Jako herec posbíral velkou řádku ocenění; filmy, v nichž hrál, jsou známy po celém světě. Úspěch zaznamenal též jako režisér.
Poté, co se objevuje v mini-sérii Šílený Max a v sérii Smrtonosná zbraň, Gibson režíroval a hrál v Oscary ověnčeném filmu Statečné srdce. V roce 2004 režíroval a produkoval Umučení Krista, film zobrazující poslední hodiny života Ježíše. Jeho zatim poslednim režisérským počinem je film Apocalypto.
„Je těžké udělat něco dvakrát dobře. Težší je to udělat třikrát a téměř nemožné čtyřikrát.“
o čtyřech pokračováních Smrtonosné zbraně
Zdroj: [Team up in "Lethal Weapon 4", Jet, 1998, červenec, 27, 58]
2 August 2006 article http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/08/02/mel-gibson-holocaust-numbers-gamersquo.html
"Gibson: I'm not anti-Semitic", Tom Tugend, Jerusalem Post, February 9, 2004
Gibson lending his support to Terri Schiavo, telling Terri's father that he supported his family's efforts to save his daughter's life. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/12/164305.shtml
25 September 2006 article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15001985/
“If you're going to wear three hats, you'd better grow two more heads.”
On his involvement in Braveheart (1995) as actor, director and producer. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000154/bio
Discussing The Passion of the Christ in an interview on Eternal Word Television Network, March 2004.
Discussing the perception that many actors are gay in an interview with El Pais magazine, December 1991.
Excerpted from Wensley Clarkson's "Mel Gibson; Living Dangerously", page 300.
Primetime interview with Diane Sawyer, February 2004. http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2004_02_22/story_1034.asp
(On criticism of Catherine Emmerich, the 19th century Augustinian nun whose visions greatly influenced Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ.) - The New Yorker, September 15 2003
“Hey, I'm for love, not war. How about we have a beer?”
An intoxicated Gibson to the infuriated driver he had just rear ended in Toronto. In 1984 he pleaded guilty to drunk driving and was fined $300 and banned from driving in Canada for 3 months. While in court, he apologized to the people of Toronto and thanked the police. Excerpted from Wensley Clarkson's "Mel Gibson; Living Dangerously," page 175.
“The L. A. Times, it's an anti-Christian publication, as is the New York Times.”
The New Yorker September 15 2003.
Apology issued July 29, 2006 for his behavior and comments during the incident with his drunk driving and speeding. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5230480.stm
http://www.quotemonk.com/authors/mel-gibson/index.htm
“What are you looking at, sugartits?”
July 28, 2006 addressing a female police officer after being pulled over for speeding and drunk driving in Malibu, California. Gibsons Anti Semitic Tirade Alleged Coverup http://www.tmz.com/2006/07/28/gibsons-anti-semitic-tirade-alleged-cover-up/, TMZ, 7/28/2006.
Christopher Hitchens, Mel Gibson Isn't Just an Angry Narcissist: His tirades are the distilled violence, cruelty, and bigotry of right-wing Catholic ideology., Slate, July. 19, 2010
“Who wants to eat?! Who the fuck wants to eat?! Go have something to eat! Hurrrrraaaaayyyyyy!”
Rant taped by Nick Eszterhas, son of screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, in Costa Rica http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/transcript-mel-gibson-rant-joe-eszterhas-37108
“Fucking Jews… Jews are responsible for all wars in the world.”
Gibson, July 28, 2006 on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California after pulled over for speeding and drunk driving. as quoted in Gibsons Anti Semitic Tirade Alleged Coverup http://www.tmz.com/2006/07/28/gibsons-anti-semitic-tirade-alleged-cover-up/, TMZ, 7/28/2006.
Interview with Jorge Ramos on 2016 U.S. Presidential election https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b20BuX_Y-k/
