I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

• At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
• I think I jump around more when I'm alone.
• I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
• It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.
• How do you rebel in a family of rebels?
• It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.
• I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.
• I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.
• If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.
• I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.