Nicolas Cage Quotes

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

The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'

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.

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.

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.

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

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

I love England - it's no secret.

Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don't give up no matter what they say.

I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business.

I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

I'm very impressed with 'Drive.'

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

I do enjoy animated movies.

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

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

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.

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

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.

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

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.

I've acted professionally since I was 16.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books.

I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans.

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.

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 think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.

I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.

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

Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

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

It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.

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.

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too.

If I do do a sequel, I'm going to have to know for sure that the script is better than the original. So I'm going to be very careful about that because I'm not eager to repeat myself.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.

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

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

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.

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.

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you’re really going about it the wrong way.

I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch.

Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in Excalibur. That was the first thing I said to her. "I loved you as Morgan Le Fay."

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.

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.

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.