"I’m not career-minded. My mantra has always been “work.” I never had a “career.” I only had “work.” That was a way of going through different movies. I find something in a movie that I think works. It’s like a rock album. Maybe not all of it works in the script, but there’s one or two songs, one or two scenes that work."
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"‘People Thought I Didn’t Care — I Did.’ Nicolas Cage Sets the Record Straight" in Rolling Stone (16 April 2022)
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