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I've been lucky to work with some of the most creative people and it's true that I enjoy filmmaking and I'm an enthusiast.
Nicolas Cage
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Nicolas Cage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 7
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Nicholas Kim Coppola
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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.
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Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.
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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.
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Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.
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I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck.
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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.
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Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.
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I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made Ringu, and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.
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When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw opportunities to express my music - dare I say art - in a way that I could get a bit surreal.
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I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.
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At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
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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.
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We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.
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With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard
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I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.
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Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.
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Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.
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I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job.
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You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.
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