Nicolas Cage

You know, it's like I grew up watching David Carradine in Kung Fu and I saw him in a movie and he didn't do any Kung Fu and I was disappointed.

And so maybe there's an element of like, gosh, I really want to see Nick go off the rails and I'm not going to give them that every time.

And I hope they're not disappointed, you know.

But David, it wasn't the goal.

The goal was to create that mystery, that enigmatic aura.

This is something else that I had no reference point that it would happen.

And so I'm still trying to... Can I say what's the good thing?

The good thing is it kept me in the zeitgeist or it kept me in the conversation for better or for worse.

But is it...

Perfect for me?

No, because that's not what the movie's necessarily about.

That little two-second moment, if you really want to see how the character got there, you need to watch the whole thing.

It's not just little screenshots of little gifs or whatever they call them.

It's something building to that eruption, if you will.

And so maybe it's lost, you know, because...

Now you hear all this conversation about attention spans and they're getting reduced and no one has time for that.

So now they're just seeing, you don't say.

So I don't know if that's what I had in mind.

What I had in mind was movies like Midnight Cowboy and Rebel Without a Cause and Last Tango in Paris.

I had in mind movies that you would go and sit down and watch.