Mel Gibson, the actor and director known for films as violent as his temper, lost his cool at California State University at Northridge on Thursday night, during what was billed as a discussion about moviemaking that followed a screening of Apocalypto, his 2006 Maya epic.

According to the Los Angeles Daily News, the question-and-answer session was interrupted by Alicia Estrada, an assistant professor of Central American studies, who challenged the historical accuracy of the bloody movie, which features human sacrifices and other gruesome spectacles typical of the Gibson oeuvre. After Ms. Estrada began translating a Maya attendee’s long statement in Spanish attacking the film as a distortion of history, Cal State officials shut off her microphone and then had armed guards remove her from the room.

As she departed, the Daily News reported, a red-faced Mr. Gibson shouted, “Fuck off, lady!” He also suggested, “Make your own movie!” Ms. Estrada later said she expected an apology from Mr. Gibson, who only recently finished apologizing for an anti-Semitic tirade when he was arrested last summer for drunken driving. —Andrew Mytelka