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" Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold. "
Nicolas Cage
Great
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" When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds. "
Nicolas Cage
Connection
Man
Weird
" I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost. "
Nicolas Cage
Man
Like
Great
" 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
Want
Awareness
Thought
" I like both Blu-ray and DVD, but Blu-ray gives you more options. "
Nicolas Cage
Like
Gives
Both
" I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together. "
Nicolas Cage
Would
Love
Good
" I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument. "
Nicolas Cage
Kind
Explore
Feel
" Everything we do impacts someone else's life. "
Nicolas Cage
Else
Someone
Everything
" I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood. "
Nicolas Cage
You
I Am
Think
" My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere. "
Nicolas Cage
Me
Always
Father
" Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool. "
Nicolas Cage
Price
Won
Award
" My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting. "
Nicolas Cage
Acting
Like
Body
" I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it. "
Nicolas Cage
Important
Try
Think
" I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way. "
Nicolas Cage
Movies
You
Wrong
" I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor. "
Nicolas Cage
Myself
Darkness
You
" To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new. "
Nicolas Cage
You
Actor
Good
" Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride. "
Nicolas Cage
Science
Way
Ride
" I've always had a soft spot for comic books. "
Nicolas Cage
Always
Books
Comic
" One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong. "
Nicolas Cage
Me
Goals
Good
" My house is basically a trailer. I live a circus lifestyle. I'm always moving. It's not always easy for people that live with me, but that's the path I chose. "
Nicolas Cage
People
Moving
Easy
" At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man. "
Nicolas Cage
Power
Name
Man
" I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. "
Nicolas Cage
Think
Perfection
People
" Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild. "
Nicolas Cage
Wild
Character
Know
" Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me. "
Nicolas Cage
Duck
Cool
Behavior
" I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do. "
Nicolas Cage
Want
Around
Sit
" Every great story seems to begin with a snake. "
Nicolas Cage
Begin
Every
Great
" I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride. "
Nicolas Cage
Proud
Try
Attack
" It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even. "
Nicolas Cage
Long
Passion
You
" I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work. "
Nicolas Cage
Movies
Top
Try
" As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me. "
Nicolas Cage
Me
Child
Fly
" I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that. "
Nicolas Cage
Stop
Look
Interesting