As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
From Nicolas Cage
I think I jump around more when I'm alone.
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.
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.
Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.
I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.
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'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 do like to move and get physical in my movies.
I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.
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