Nicolas Cage
speaker
1,245 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Jun
Nicolas Cage’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I wanted to be Howard Hawks or John Ford or some such other director.
And then I went to Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts in 71, and everybody was a social documentary still photographer.
They were interested in the truth of what is and what was.
And all of a sudden I had my molecules rearranged, and I'm now interested in doing documentaries.
And that combined with a completely untrained interest in history to start doing this sort of stuff.
And that's where it came from.
No, no, no.
I mean, every once in a while you get a critic who's decided that they're going to take you down for the pretentiousness with which you've decided to approach baseball or some other such thing or
Maybe you find a jazz or rotty guy who thinks that, you know, because you left out the second sideman in Count Basie's band between 47 and 48, you've failed miserably, that you weren't the telephone book.
So you do have some critics.
It's a really nice sort of thing, and it's kind of cool to be able to respond to them.
Because you always go and you say, okay, so who of today's...
Or a criticism that you didn't do modern jazz guys.
Who are of today's jazz guys are as important as Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane.
And they'll go, well, we won't know for 25 years.
Yeah.
And that's called history.
Right.
And there's your answer.
And there's your answer.
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