Nicolas Cage has revealed that when he was a child he treated life like a movie.
The Oscar winning actor admits that he always dream ed about being in a movie but didn't really consider an acting career until he was in his mid teens.
"I would watch the TV intently and try to figure out how to get inside it from the living room carpet. Going to elementary school, I envisaged crane shots of myself which would widen out to show me as this tiny little boy walking down the street.
"It wasn't until I was 15 that I went to the New Beverly Cinema, a little arthouse cinema in Los Angeles, and I discovered James Dean in East of Eden.
"The scene where he's trying to give Raymond Massey the money from the beans he sold on his father's birthday blew my mind."
And Cage has gone on to one of the most successful actors to grace the big screen in recent years, picking up that Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas back in 1995.
And this year he has already enjoyed success with Bad Lieutenant and super her movie Kick Ass and he can currently be seen in The Sorcerer's Apprentice with Jay Baruchel.
Drive Angry 3D and Hungry Rabbit Jumps are both awaiting release and he has completed the voice work for the Croods. On the horizon for the actor includes Office Paranormal with Mickey Rourke, National Treasure 3 and a second Ghost Rider movie.
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