I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.

I was very happy with Vampire's Kiss, which in my opinion was almost like an independent laboratory to start realizing some of my more expressionistic dreams with film performance. Then using what I had learned in Vampire's Kiss and putting it into a very big action movie in the form of Face/Off with John Woo. If you look at those two movies back to back, you can see where I stole from my performance in Vampire's Kiss.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated.

I've acted professionally since I was 16.

I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me.

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.