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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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Nicolas Cage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 7
Actor
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Executive Producer
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Long Beach
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Nicholas Kim Coppola
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I always say to myself that if I can make a movie that makes a kid smile or gives them some hope or something to get excited about, then I'm applying myself in the best way that I can. I don't think that just goes for kids. I think that it goes for adults, as well, and for families.
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Without mentioning any names, I looked at pretty much every story that may come to your mind about a politician on the rise who was stopped short or dragged down by personal flaws and then became just a media storm. I see this as a thing that continues to happen in America and I wanted to say something about that.
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I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'
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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.
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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.
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.
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Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.
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I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.
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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.
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When I play supernatural characters in 'Ghost Rider' or 'City Of Angels,' the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that.
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Nobody can make a movie as exciting as Jerry Bruckheimer. When it's a Jerry Bruckheimer movie that it's going to have lots of chrome and gloss, it's going to be sexy, and it's going to be big and fun.
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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.
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I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.
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Peter Fonda is the reason I became a motorcyclist. I saw Easy Rider and I bought a motorcycle the next day, and I rode it all the way from LA to San Francisco.
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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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My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.
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