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.
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.
All the characters I've ever played have really had nothing to do with looks. There's a lot of things that are a lot more interesting to me to play than that.
For a long-running TV show, you're looking for a character who is interesting and vibrant and you can imagine going into all kinds of different areas.
I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.
You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.
I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.
I actually really like Christopher Walken. I find him a really interesting actor. He's such a character that I love everything he's in.
I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.
It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating.
I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.
Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.
I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the character's own thoughts.
