Nicolas Cage Want Quotations

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.

I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting.

I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.

I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business.

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.

With the advent of this kind of TMZ culture, it sadly seems to have infiltrated the vanguard of film commentary. I see these reviews sometimes where I think, well, you have a right to say whatever you want about my work, and I will listen whether it's good or bad and see if there's something that I might work with, but personal issues don't have a place in film commentary.

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.