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" I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent. "
Nicolas Cage
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" Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain. "
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" Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool. "
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" I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree. "
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" One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits. "
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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. "
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" I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting. "
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" I'm very impressed with 'Drive.' "
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" I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood. "
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" My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting. "
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" How do you say one actor is better than another actor? You can definitely say that in the Olympics if it's the same race and someone wins the race. The only way to really do it and have it be sincere would be if you get all the actors together, and they're all playing the same part, and then you rate which one made you feel the most. "
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" I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from. "
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" If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point. "
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" I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility. "
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" I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. "
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" We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him. "
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" I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not. "
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" I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this. "
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" I always say to myself that if I can make a movie that makes a kid smile or gives them some hope or something to get excited about, then I'm applying myself in the best way that I can. I don't think that just goes for kids. I think that it goes for adults, as well, and for families. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green. "
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" I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is. "
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" I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans. "
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" Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. "
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" Every great story seems to begin with a snake. "
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