Nicolas Cage on Oscar-voittaja, mutta toisaalta hän on esiintynyt runsaasti toinen toistaan huonommissa elokuvissa. Moinen on tietenkin lyönyt leimansa miehen uraan. CBS Newsille puhunut Cage kertoo, että asuntoalan kuplan puhkeaminen ajoi hänet pahoihin kuuden miljoonan dollarin velkoihin, jotka oli maksettava. Nyt takaisinmaksu on tehty.
Parhaimmillaan Cage teki neljä elokuvaa saman vuoden aikana.
"I was over-invested in real estate. The real estate market crashed, and I couldn't get out in time. I paid them all back, but it was about $6 million. I never filed for bankruptcy."
"Work was always my guardian angel. It may not have been blue chip, but it was still work. Even if the movie ultimately is crummy, they know I'm not phoning it in, that I care every time."
"When I was doing four movies a year, back to back to back, I still had to find something in them to be able to give it my all."
"They didn't work, all of them. Some of them were terrific, like Mandy, but some of them didn't work. But I never phoned it in. So if there was a misconception, it was that. That I was just doing it and not caring. I was caring."