Nicolas Cage says he's "never going to retire"

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Nicolas Cage isn't provision on retiring from acting – ever.

"That can't happen," the actor told Entertainment Weekly of retirement. "To do what I do in cinema has been like a tutelary angel for me, and I take it. I'm healthier when I'm working, I need a positive place to express my spirit experience, and filmmaking has given me that. So I'm never loss to go to bed. Where are we now, 117 movies? [Laughs]"

He added: "What's funny remark is, my argument with people who cristal, 'You work too much,' was 'I like working, and it's healthy, I'm happy when I'm temporary, and by the mode, guys like Cagney and Bogart, they were doing hundreds of movies.' And then I went, 'I'd better check that,' and I went, 'Oops.' [Laughs] Jerry Lewis was one of my friends, and he and I would go and have dinner party together, and he would aver, 'How many movies you got?' I conk, 'I got nearly 100, how many you got?' 'I got 40. So you got twice as much as me?' 'Fortunate, I didn't know that, Jerry.'"

Cage can next be seen in Sion Sono's Prisoners of the Ghostland, portraying a bank robber on the trail of a missing girl who has nonexistent into a weird earthly concern. He also recently appeared in the critically acclaimed Pig, and will cost performin himself in The Unbearable Weight of Heavy Endowment, with a cast that includes Pedro Pascal, Neil St. Patrick Harris, and Tiffany Haddish.

Prisoners of the Ghostland releases in theaters and connected VOD this September 17, following its January premiere at Sundance Picture Festival.

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