Mel Gibson

Actor, Director, Filmmaker, Producer

Mel Gibson is an American actor and filmmaker, raised in Australia, who starred in Mad Max (1979) and Lethal Weapon (1987). He directed Braveheart (1995), The Passion of the Christ (2004), Apocalypto (2006) and Hacksaw Ridge (2016).

Mel Gibson's 6 Book Recommendations

• Collapse: “I read a book once by Jared Diamond called Collapse... It says all the things you need for a civilization to cave in and collapse. And a lot of the things are present.”
• Popol Vuh: “And of course, then we read the book by Jared Diamond, Collapse. I read the Mayan Bible, the Popol Vuh.”
• The Frontiersmen: A Narrative: “The first half of the book is about this guy Simon Kenton and the second half is about Tecumseh... really great book, one of the most fascinating books I've read. You can't put it down.”
• Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: “I smoked for 45 years and I couldn't stop and I read this silly book by Allen Carr... so I read the book and I stopped.”
• The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ: “I came across the book that this movie is based on. So I read that and was very moved by it.”
• The Bible: “Especially with something like the Passion that I did, the written word was very important. Because it was, you know, you got all those books, the Bible, you know, you have the different gospels.”