I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.
Nicolas CageI definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.
Nicolas CageI 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.
Nicolas CageI want to try to apply my abilities sometimes to make families happy, so I have to make movies at a venue that are not gratuitously violent, that are not using bullets and bloodshed, but are using things like magic and fantasy and enchantment and the imagination. To me that's just all positive stuff. But I am eclectic and I still like to make movies for the midnight audience as well.
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