In a 1998 interview, Mel Gibson described Hollywood as a bizarre place that tests you early on.
He said it feels like a weird town where suspicions build, and you realize some suspicions turn out real. He spoke of the industry pounding at your walls, like little heathens with no soul downstairs, horns on their head, swinging a battering ram, trying to break you down.
He stressed you can't let it get to you or it will rip your life apart, you need resilience to survive its attitudes and unspoken deals.
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