To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

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.