One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits. Nicolas Cage More Quotes by Nicolas Cage More Quotes From Nicolas Cage There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11? Nicolas Cage twelve arms people I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness. Nicolas Cage kind want fun I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful. Nicolas Cage austria sacred beautiful The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look forward to sharing them with their parents, a ritual if you will, where they get to spend time together and the kids are smiling. Nicolas Cage meaningful kids children I want to try to apply my abilities sometimes to make families happy, so I have to make movies at a venue that are not gratuitously violent, that are not using bullets and bloodshed, but are using things like magic and fantasy and enchantment and the imagination. To me that's just all positive stuff. But I am eclectic and I still like to make movies for the midnight audience as well. Nicolas Cage magic imagination trying My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children. Nicolas Cage empowering father children I just try to keep it fresh. I try to keep it interesting. The truth is my roots are independently spirited dramas that are small, and I will always go back to that well, because that's where I broke out of. But I'm going to keep doing as many different movies as I possibly can. Nicolas Cage roots drama interesting I wasn't any good at romnace. I was a total nerd. My thing is, I was just too romantic. I was the romantic goofball. I wasn't cynical enough or harsh enough. I cared too much, so I always made a fool out of myself. Nicolas Cage nerd cynical too-much I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning. Nicolas Cage creative character thinking It's always exciting when you can go into a mode where you can be both spontaneous and choreographed. Sort of in control and out of control at the same time. Nicolas Cage spontaneous exciting I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered. Nicolas Cage imagination dream people I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity. Nicolas Cage mad scary acting I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means you have to try a little bit of everything in hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note, expression in the process. I'm not going for grades; I'm going for an education. I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn. Nicolas Cage expression trying mean If you get a chance, whenever you're traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don't buy your comics online 'cause those guys are going to go extinct, in a minute here, and we want to be able to have those experiences with our kids. Nicolas Cage guy kids book When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions. Nicolas Cage cameras trying character I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not. Nicolas Cage good-movie fall thinking I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time. Nicolas Cage attractive character thinking I was thinking about being more global in my work, which means trying more foreign countries and working with foreign filmmakers, hoping they would give me a new take on my work, a new point of view, reinvent me in some way. Nicolas Cage mean country thinking When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn't go where you want it to go. It's a lot of pressure. Nicolas Cage pressure want people My father always used to say to me, it doesn’t matter what the profession is, but if they’re the best in their field, it will always be fascinating to watch. Nicolas Cage dad watches father
