Nicolas Cage

Not consciously, no.

But that's an interesting observation.

Has it?

I didn't know that.

I don't know if it has.

What is a meme, really?

I mean, what is that?

Is that a snapshot of something that happened culturally?

I think it's interesting to look at that

communication as a result of some of my performances that it would land in cyberspace in such a way that my face in Vampire's Kiss became the you don't say meme.

I mean, I don't know.

I think I'm flattered by it on some level, you know, that it communicated and it was remembered that

Um, potently that it, it got into a whole new, um, technology that I wasn't even aware of when I made vampires cause it didn't exist.

You know, it's, um, I, that's how I'm choosing to look at it.

I think positively it kept me in the conversation.

Sounds interesting.

I think that there is a need for a vessel vicariously

For folks who are good citizens, who are doing their best to be upstanding members of the community to live through and get their ya-ya's out, whether they're angry ya-ya's or happy ya-ya's or whatever it is, I think...

And I don't know how conscious I was of it, but that has communicated through some of the meltdown performances in my work where people can tap into it and live through it without having to go and do it, whether it's matchstick men in the pharmacy, you know, would you like me to take you out on the street and piss blood, you know, or flipping out in Vampire's Kiss or whatever it is.

I think that that...