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" Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD. "
Nicolas Cage
Film
Become
Digital
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" My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?' I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic. "
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" I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience. "
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" I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything. "
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" There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false. "
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" How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else. "
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Arts
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" The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers. "
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" I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do. "
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Movies
Want
" I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that. "
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Change
People
" I've acted professionally since I was 16. "
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Since
Professionally
Acted
" I'm very impressed with 'Drive.' "
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Drive
" 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. "
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Stop
Look
Interesting
" I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting. "
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Words
Always
Soft
" Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they? "
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Me
Children
Future
" When I play supernatural characters in 'Ghost Rider' or 'City Of Angels,' the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that. "
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Play
Angels
Possibilities
" One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits. "
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Some
Getting Older
Limits
" Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene. "
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Clear
Understanding
Rhythm
" God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction. "
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Literature
Decision
Father
" I've always had a soft spot for comic books. "
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Always
Books
Comic
" I love England - it's no secret. "
Nicolas Cage
Secret
No Secret
Love
" Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. "
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People
Good
Science
" Nobody wants to watch perfection. "
Nicolas Cage
Wants
Perfection
Nobody
" I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative. "
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Me
Uncomfortable
Try
" 'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching. "
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You
Help
Science
" For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver. "
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Me
Life
Energy
" I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs. "
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Perfect
Humanity
" Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios. "
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Look
" 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
" People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual. "
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Parents
Family
" Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation. "
Nicolas Cage
Say
Opportunity
Moments
" Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. To me, he's a great actor. "
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Hero
Duck
Great