Nicolas Cage isn’t my most favourite actors and he has a marked tendency towards hamminess. He also a tendency to follow the “one for the money, one for himself” approach to film-making, although that seems to have become “one for the money, one for more money” as he’s probably got a lot of bills to pay.
But he is an Oscar winner and as this video shows, he’s a smart, funny guy with plenty of interesting ideas. Worth a watch, I reckon.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
