Nicolas Cage Quotes

I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them.

For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.

I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people at Pixar, of course, and I learn a lot from them each and every day.

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.

I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from, and I've been a sponge.

You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

Hopefully, I can stay around a lot of young musicians and feed off of them.

To be able to work with my idols is incredible. You learn so much, and they're wonderful as people, too.

My biggest inspiration is to work with interesting filmmakers and learn from them in any way that I can.

I value teaching. It's one of the places I get inspiration, engagement.

Here's a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great ideas have a mind of their own.

In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Your ideas dry up sometimes, and you get lazy sometimes 'cause you're around the same people. That was the good thing about having different directors. You had to stay on your toes.

Even when I have someone playing the song I give them the idea. I'm learning. I'm getting better over the years.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Someone, somewhere has a better idea.

Stay close to the young... and a little rubs off.

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.