I remember hearing a friend of mine mention that Dustin Hoffman once said that he wished he had made more movies. He was very selective but, in retrospect, he would have liked to have made more films.
And I often think about that. If I ever meet him, I’ll ask him about it. It seems to me that making as many movies as you can makes sense if you can do it in a way that doesn’t blow out the audience and overexpose yourself.
If you’re genuinely exploring new characters and different directions and have some reason for having a more prolific body of work, then why not do it? I was asking myself, ‘Would I rather be HG Wells or Franz Kafka?’ Would I rather have this mountainous, voluminous body of writing that Wells had or have just a few great novels like Kafka did? It’s a good question.
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Hadouken76
May 23rd 2011, 17:50
he needs to work with Coens again
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timbot
May 23rd 2011, 18:42
I'd rather see a film with Nicholas cage in it than Sean penn any day
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kaysad
May 23rd 2011, 18:49
Why are showing an old interview and calling it new? I remember reading this years ago in the Totalfilm magazine!
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timbot
May 23rd 2011, 19:43
Watching nicholas cage is a unique experience because he gives a manic edge he gives to every role he plays. no other actor could do this and get away with it. His performances in Bad luitenant face/off wild at heart and leaving las vagas are out of this world-he proved early on that he can completely immerse himself in a role in leaving las vegas but rather than sticking to that boring old method acting s**t he made a style of acting entirley of his own.
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