Nicolas Cage Quotes

The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play it honestly, or because of time constraints with personal things in my life.

My father always used to say to me, it doesn’t matter what the profession is, but if they’re the best in their field, it will always be fascinating to watch.

I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen.

I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.

I'm always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn't go away.

When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn't go where you want it to go. It's a lot of pressure.

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.

I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that.

I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds.

All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.

God bless the popcorn film. Especially movies where you can take the kids, because I remember looking forward to seeing these movies with my parents, and if I can give that back, I'm gonna do it.

These so called Popcorn movies, or family movies, actually provide something quite beautiful and something quite necessary, which is a family bonding experience.

I really think it's important that my beliefs don't impinge upon what you get from the movie. It's your opinion that matters and it's far more interesting than mine.

I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you're not supposed to do.

I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies there. I've become very close to the city and part of me does feel like a New Orleanian.

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.

I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable.

I just want to keep making movies that hopefully makes some kids smile.

I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.

I don't know why it is, but I do like dancing in the extreme situations. I like that noise, I like that intensity. For some reason, it's what I respond to in terms of my taste and of my instincts.

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.

Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers.

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.

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

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