His directorial debut Passion of the Christ might have been in the of controversy, but Mel Gibson seems to have taken direction seriously so much so that he is no longer planning to make a comeback to acting.
Gibson recently rubbished reports of him coming back to the silver screen saying that he is happier concentrating on directing rather than acting. He even confessed to being happier if he wasn't working at all.
"I just haven't felt the pressing desire to hop in front of the camera and tap dance. It's not that I don't want to do it, it's just that it hasn't been on the menu for me for a while. When I was younger I used to think, 'Boy, what would happen if I didn't work again? Gee whiz, that'd be terrible,' but I since realized it's not terrible at all," he was quoted as saying.
Gibson's self-financed film Apocalypto which cost as much as $80 million to produce opened in the US this week and has attracted much publicity showing that he remains popular as a filmmaker. His two previous directorial efforts, "The Passion of the Christ" and 1995's Oscar-winning "Braveheart," grossed a combined $847 million worldwide.