Nicolas Cage
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Podcast Appearances
I mean, she takes...
80% of my energy, and I'm focused on that.
So it's not about how can I fill the time.
It's more about can I find the time that I can be there to nurture her and guide her.
And I'm lucky right now because she's young enough that as long as we โ
can travel together and I can come home to her, that's good.
But yeah, that is on my mind, how I'm going to compartmentalize my time.
No, I'm thinking about it.
I'm thinking about what you're asking me, and I'm connecting the dots.
That's a really profound, I think, question because I'm still trying to find my answer to it.
And...
It's pretty deep.
Yes, when I began, I wanted to cultivate this mythology around myself.
That was before we had this thing called the internet.
And I didn't know that it would go that far, that it would be that widespread.
Did I think... I didn't have the means to imagine that one day it would become this thing we call memes or...
would go into different cultures around the world or whatever it is that the internet deploys.
So I think it went beyond what
I initially was trying to cultivate a mystique, an aura, an enigmatic presence, a mystery, all that beautiful stuff that the black and white golden age, as we call them, Bogarts and Cagneys, Betty Davises had before there was so much television and certainly before the internet.
Well, I think that there may have become...