Nicolas Cage Quotes

The reach of big-budget films is bigger, but I have always loved doing films that I believe in.

I would never make a film because I think it's going to be a box-office success.

You never make movies for Oscars.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.

Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.

I never really think about what people are going to think of the movie afterwards. Or what people are going to call me. I just want to make a great project, and my focus is really all on that. And then I really don't read reviews. Like, you know, go on comment boards or anything.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.

I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work.

Basically, I always thought that if I had a movie that did well enough and warranted having a sequel, I would seriously entertain it because that's a huge blessing when that happens in your career.

Usually, people think that award movies are hard to break.

Your big movie stars who've been in blockbusters generating a lot of dollars are looking for the meatier, substantive roles that they think will make the awards season.

I don't think I need to do a big-ticket film to be considered a big actress.

When you make a film you make a film. You don't think about how it will be marketed.

The problem is some of our riskier films just don't make as much money. But if you only make films that will just be commercially successful, then you can also sink yourself as a studio.

There are movies that I've made where I thought I was going to be good, but when it was cut it together it wasn't. And there are a lot of movies that, for one reason or another, just don't become popular. So to me it's always been a little bit of a roll of the dice. That's the way it goes.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well.

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

Acting is not a competition; everything must be done for the good of the film or else everybody loses.