Gibson: "If you can maintain a neutrality [while approaching a character] ... then [you can] branch out from that, add on ... It's like Mr. Potato Head, slap whatever you want on it, a mustache or, you know, different attributes of a character. It's much easier to paint on a bare canvas than one that's already got a picture on it."
Gibson: "I guess it gets almost to a question of like kind of a religion. Mecca for filmmakers is this industry here, it's where there's the biggest pool, it's the watering hole where everyone comes to see, to measure up, to include themselves in the pool, their talent, and that collective thing, it's like you go to the smorgasbord to feed your need to work and your need to tell stories and your need to express yourself [in] whatever form that is."
Gibson: "[Rising to overnight stardom is] like being a blind man walking into the woods. It takes a while to come to terms with that, this new world that you're having to exist in."
Gibson: "[Being a first time director is] like being tossed in a very big body of water and told to swim to shore. You have a general idea of which direction the shore is, but you may not get there for a long time."
Gibson: “[While improvising with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg,] I felt like a spectator at a Beijing Ping Pong match with the flip-flapping back and forth between them that I was trying to keep up with."
RDJ: "[Accepting] responsibility for my wrongdoings and [embracing] that part of my soul that was ugly [is what Gibson calls] ‘hugging the cactus.’"
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