Nicolas Cage

We don't have a research period followed by a scripting period and then follow the template that that script represents through shooting and editing.

This is – we never stop researching.

We never stop writing.

We're the last day of editing.

We're rewriting something in the stuff.

So it takes a really long time but allows you to add layers of nuance and to get stuff that you didn't get, to have very complex –

parallel constructions in the structure of the film, and it's the only way I know how to do it.

I've been doing that for 35 years, and that's it.

They're both bad?

They're both very, very bad to taste, and they're really, really good for you.

Really?

You literally have to hold your nose, and you go like this, and you think that people had to take it every single day, and they did.

Like, my dad took it every single day, and that's why it explains a lot.

I had a patch where I would sometimes sprinkle brewer's yeast on.

on grapefruit, and it was actually all right.

And it was like a granola-y thing.

See, I think it all went wrong when Thomas Jefferson said, he could have followed John Locke and said, life, liberty, and property.

We understand that.

Get the hell off my glance, or I'm going to shoot you.

But he said pursuit of happiness, and we didn't know what that meant.