Famous Quotes

Quotes by Nicolas Cage

• I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.
• I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.
• I do enjoy animated movies.
• I do like to move and get physical in my movies.
• I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.
• I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.
• I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.
• I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
• I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
• I think I jump around more when I'm alone.
• 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 was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.
• 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.
• I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.
• If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.
• It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.
• It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.