People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.
More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.
I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there. We are considered like demi-gods here, and the reason is not because we are better or good, but because there is no other mode of entertainment in India.
I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.
We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him. - Nicolas Cage
The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.' - Nicolas Cage
It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made. - Stanley Kubrick
One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up. - Nicolas Cage
Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers. - Nicolas Cage
Most of my favorite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation. - Nicolas Cage
More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist - anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It's the best form of entertainment, and it's still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment. - Nicolas Cage
I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way. - Nicolas Cage
I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds. - Nicolas Cage
I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that. - Brad Pitt
'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory. - Sylvester Stallone
It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There's lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don't care about anything else.
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