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" I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me. "

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" I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks. "

Nicolas Cage

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Think

Point

" Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity. "

" Hopefully as a result of 'The Frozen Ground,' more and more people will be aware of the horrible things that happen to ladies all over the world and give them respect. This movie is a love letter to those victims. "

" I haven't made anything I don't believe in. I've always started a movie with a song in my heart, and even when I'm a little unclear about it, something magical happens and it comes into focus in a way that I'm feeling good about. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. "

" 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

Child

Fly

" Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be. "

" There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One was 'Lord of the Rings' and one was 'The Matrix.' But I was actively involved at that time raising my family, and I couldn't really take that time out. "

" I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. "

" Every great story seems to begin with a snake. "

" I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day. "

" I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own. "

" When you start a movie, it's not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You're meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety. "

" I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me. "

Nicolas Cage

Loved

Music

" My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting. "

Nicolas Cage

Acting

Body

" I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride. "

" I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking. "

" The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes. "

Nicolas Cage

Story

Fact

" I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear. "

" And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy. "

" 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. "

" I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. "

Nicolas Cage

Young

Actor

" Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Nicolas Cage

Life

Energy

" How do you rebel in a family of rebels? "

" 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. "

" 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. "