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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture." ↗

— John Cage

#better #culture #distraction #entertainment #listen

I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#acid #am #bob #demon #denver

There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. "In the Mood for Love," though, reached all the way to my belly. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#down #eyes #films #heart #love

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#beauty #dejan-stojanovic #express #expression #feel

There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#bedside #been #character #city #come

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#between #fine #fine line #line #method

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#destructive #doing #energy #life #me

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#difference #little #little difference #love #old

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. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#being #bit #character #crazy #developed

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film. ↗

— Dean Cain

#costs #days #did #enough #film