Nicolas Cage 'imagined life was a movie'

Nicolas Cage used to imagine that his life was a movie in which he was the star.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice star confessed to Virgin Media that as a child he dreamed of being a part of the glamorous and exciting world he saw on screen.

"I would watch the TV intently and try to figure out how to get inside it from the living room carpet," he explained.

"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."

Despite a life-long obsession with film and TV, Cage admitted that he only recognised his acting ambitions during his teenage years.

"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," he confessed. "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."

Cage is the nephew of film director Francis Ford Coppola and took his stage name from the Marvel comics book character Luke Cage.

Cage previously revealed that he considers movies to be "a work of magic".