“Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've g...” — Nicolas Cage Quote

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.

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

I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.

I had a very long time, a period where shows that I had done were not successful or not initially successful, and, you know, it was depressing and frustrating. But the most important trait that one can have in this business is perseverance.

We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.

I don't wanna make something depressing, I wanna make something sorrowful.

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.