Quotes by Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage

‘Knowing’ is one of those movies where you’re going to get the spectacle, and you’re going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching.

Fiction

Knowing

Needs

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I’m also excited about producing. I’m excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

Acting

Roots

World

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

Acting

Art

Form

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

Opportunity

Pain

Use

Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I’ll wear wigs, I’ll wear nose pieces, I’ll wear green contact lenses in my eyes. I’ll do whatever I need to do to create a character.

Character

Eye

School

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.

Dream

Ideas

Memories

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

Aspire

Labels

Levels

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

Character

Madness

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.

Fun

Movie

Thinking

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.

Children

People

Superhero

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Action

Actors

Add

Admire

Adventure

Age

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Airports

Alive

Always Believe

America

Angel

Animal

Animated

Animated Movies

Anime

Answers

Arms

Art

Aspire

Attractive

Australia

Austria

Avant Garde

Awards

Beach

Beautiful

Believe

Believer

Best Things

Bigger Than Life

Bird

Block

Blood

Blue

Book

Boss

Boys

Brother

Buddhism

Building

Cameras

Car

Care

Careers

Careful

Castles

Cat

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Quotes by Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I’m also excited about producing. I’m excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

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

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

Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I’ll wear wigs, I’ll wear nose pieces, I’ll wear green contact lenses in my eyes. I’ll do whatever I need to do to create a character.

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.

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

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

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.

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