One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits. Nicolas Cage More Quotes by Nicolas Cage More Quotes From Nicolas Cage You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught. Nicolas Cage spurs wire ideas I'm always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn't go away. Nicolas Cage fearful going-away people Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history. Nicolas Cage instinct want character In the beginning my energy and passion for acting came from an almost punk rock need to express a lot of anger wherever that may have come from. As I got older, it became or is coming more from a place of wanting to use the craft to help others in some way, to hold a mirror up to the situations that we're going through, to actually be more cautious about the way that I use the power of film and to see if there's anything that I can do in the performances that will resonate in the public a similar string that's on people's minds and is on my mind. That way we have that relationship. Nicolas Cage passion mirrors helping-others I don't find the same things funny that many other people seem to find funny. I don't really respond to sex jokes and things like that, and some of my friends look at me and go, "Come on, Nic, that was my best joke. Why aren't you laughing?" I go, "I really don't know why I'm not laughing. I'm sort of out of sync with it." So I'd have to find something that was really about weird human behavior for me to laugh. Nicolas Cage laughing sex people Without impending on your own personal choice, there are going to be those that wear the hat of religion and those that wear the hat of science. I still don't really understand why they can't wear both hats, because personally, I think that they go beautifully together. Nicolas Cage choices together thinking I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds. Nicolas Cage tired people thinking All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie. Nicolas Cage aspire labels levels I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing. Nicolas Cage reading character thinking People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they're in these circumstances and make them real to you. Nicolas Cage real believe children I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring. Nicolas Cage children looks world I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist. Nicolas Cage rocks careers thinking More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist - anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It's the best form of entertainment, and it's still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment. Nicolas Cage helpful entertainment healing I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies. Nicolas Cage family-oriented passion midnight I really think it's important that my beliefs don't impinge upon what you get from the movie. It's your opinion that matters and it's far more interesting than mine. Nicolas Cage important interesting thinking I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen. Nicolas Cage green actors blue That was one of the reasons why I wanted to tell the story of Colin Price. I saw someone in this fictionalized political character that was trying to do something important for his city. He meant well, but then you see that the human flaws had really derailed his past. It seems to be happening more and more in our country. I wanted to hold a mirror up to that. Nicolas Cage character country past I was very happy with Vampire's Kiss, which in my opinion was almost like an independent laboratory to start realizing some of my more expressionistic dreams with film performance. Then using what I had learned in Vampire's Kiss and putting it into a very big action movie in the form of Face/Off with John Woo. If you look at those two movies back to back, you can see where I stole from my performance in Vampire's Kiss. Nicolas Cage independent kissing dream I got into film acting because I wanted to be James Dean. We lost him at a very young age - he was only 24 - but I’m 51 going on 52, so there's only so many times you can act like James Dean. I had to find new ways of expressing myself that kept me fascinated with film performance. Nicolas Cage acting age way I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you're not supposed to do. Nicolas Cage ladders superstitions may
