CAVIEZEL: (Laughs) Yeah, right. Well, when we went into it, it was, 'Well, you might fall flat on your face here.' I remember Mel says, 'I might be the biggest idiot in the world, or maybe I'll be a genius!
' You know, yeah, it's changed a lot. You see a lot more people who'll come up and talk to you and appreciate what you've done, mostly. It's been really good.
I think the success of The Passion , boy, I tell you, it takes about three years of stress away where you're thinking, 'What am I doing here?' But, I looked at the project. It was a great project.
Everything you take is a risk in this business. It came down to the material and, hey, great director. What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?
I told Mel, 'I said Mel, gee, people are walking around calling you crazy and saying this won't work. Have they forgotten about Braveheart ?' He says, 'Oh yeah.
That's eons ago; that doesn't count any more.' And that's what happens in this business. They remember the last thing you did, but in your heart you have to look at them and I say, 'Look, this is what I'm gonna do,' and the same thing with [ Final Cut ].
I looked at it and I loved the complexity of it, I loved the multi-faceted, with the allegories and the story worked, the society, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it always but I felt there was something here.
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