Nicolas Cage

Even Raising Arizona, I was challenging Joel and Ethan because I was sticking to my plan that he was going to, H.I.

McDonough was going to have this kind of Woody Woodpecker, Looney Tunes style, which they originally liked, but there were days where they were frustrated and they were like, why did I, why did, you know, I could have cast this person, I could have cast that person.

Then I finally just said, well, why did you hire me?

And that stopped that conversation.

And the results on that, I think, are terrific.

I think that that was a great union.

Joel, Ethan, and myself and Holly, I think we got somewhere together that was remarkably funny.

But at the time, it was right on the edge.

And then Vampire's Kiss, of course, I mean, I was really...

struggling on that one because I had a very specific vision of what I wanted.

I wanted to bring a Max Schreck-like style back into the sort of 80s, yuppie, this is before American Psycho, attitude of like the literary agent who's going to the best restaurants and he's going on dates.

And

And then slowly devolving into a vampire and thinking he is a vampire.

And that I wanted to bring out the Shrek-like behavior.

And I did the horrible thing that I don't need to go back to with the ingestion of that thing.

Cockroach.

Yeah.

Well, all that was me trying to make a big noise to say, we're going to do this.

We're going to do something different.

Well, I don't know if they've known the specifics that went into the choices in terms of