Daily Inspiration Quote by Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson isn’t just claiming inspiration here; he’s claiming absolution. By invoking “The Holy Ghost,” he reframes a movie set as a kind of altar and himself as a reluctant conduit, “just directing traffic” while a higher power does the real work. It’s a rhetorically savvy move because it swaps auteur ego for spiritual humility without actually surrendering authority. You still ran the set. You still chose the shots. But the credit (and any moral heft) gets outsourced upward.

The phrasing matters. “Working through me” carries the familiar cadence of testimony, the language of conversion narratives where personal will is secondary to divine purpose. “Directing traffic” is disarmingly mundane, almost blue-collar: not the grand artist, just the guy with the orange vest keeping the lanes open. That downshifts the intensity and makes the claim feel more relatable, even as it quietly elevates the project into sacred terrain.

Context sharpens the subtext. Gibson’s faith-forward public persona and the charged reception of his religious filmmaking make the line function as preemptive framing: critique the film and you risk sounding like you’re arguing with God’s plan, not just a director’s choices. It’s also a way to launder controversy into vocation. The message is: don’t read this as one man’s interpretation; read it as revelation with a call time.

Culturally, it captures a familiar American dynamic: artistry as ministry, celebrity as witness, and the seductive power of claiming that the most contested work you’ve made wasn’t really yours at all.