Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.

In 2009 Cage starred in science fiction thriller Knowing directed by Alex Proyas. In August 2007 Cage purchased "Grey Craig" a 24000-square-foot (2200 m2) brick-and-stone country manor in Middletown Rhode Island. However improbable his character he never winks at the audience.

Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7 1964) known professionally as Nicolas Cage is an American actor producer and director. In 2013 he voiced the character of Crug in the animated film The Croods.