CS: After you left Australia, finally, and the "Lethal Weapon" juggernaut began to strike, did you expect the success that came with it and do you think you prepared for that, psychologically?
Gibson: I think I was in good shape to sort of deal with that, because I sort of had done that. You do your 'blooding' as it were when you're young. You start in Australia, you strike out, you make a few films outside the country and then you realize you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube as far as your personal life and stuff goes, that you become public property. It's a very odd thing. So that sort of thing hit me in my 20s. And if I hadn't been reasonably successful it wouldn't have happened the way it did, because you're already on the rise. And then you become a person of interest.