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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

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" Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing. "

" You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do an indie. But you can't let other people trying to label you get in the way of trying to do something artistically. "

" One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' "

" I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear. "

" I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.' "

" 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. "

" I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do. "

" 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. "

" Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain. "

" I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual. "

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

" I do enjoy animated movies. "

" 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. "

" 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

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Fly

" Everything we do impacts someone else's life. "

" 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. "

" I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work. "

" Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? "

" I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility. "

" 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. "

" Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences. "

" I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies. "

Nicolas Cage

Movies

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