Nicolas Cage

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 like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

I do enjoy animated movies.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

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 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’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.