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Actor Wants to be Band

Whatever you say, Nicolas Cage: "I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way. I think that it's... right now, what I'm excited about is trying to create a [pauses] kind of a cultural understanding through my muse that is part of the zeitgeist that isn't motivated by vanity or magazine covers or awards. It's more, not countercultural, but counter-critical. I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking." [Moviefone]