Mel Gibson, in a 1998 interview about Hollywood:

"I formed a bunch of opinions about the town and the people in it that were like… surely it couldn’t be true. The whole place can’t be this weird, right?"

"And then you go away and think, no, I was wrong. That’s insane thinking. I’m just being paranoid. I imagined that stuff."

"Later on, you find out you were exactly on track with a lot of this stuff...Your worst nightmares were real at the time."

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