Editing Nicolas Cage (section)

===Political views and religious beliefs===
Cage grew up in a family of Catholic background, but does not talk about religion publicly and refuses to answer religion-connected questions in his interviews.<ref name="fennell" /> When asked about whether he could relate to his character's lack of religious belief in ''Knowing'', Cage replied, "You know, any of my personal beliefs or opinions run the risk of impinging on your own relationship with the movie. I think movies are best left enigmatic. Left raising more questions than answers. I don't want to ever preach, so that's what you get from a movie; that's far more interesting than anything I could offer."<ref name="independentie2009" />

During his visit to [[University of California, Santa Cruz]], he stated that he is not a politically active actor and that he can do it in his work as he learned "more about [[nuclear power]] from the movie ''[[The China Syndrome]]''."<ref name="obP9C" /> Cage endorsed [[Andrew Yang]] for president during the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 election]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Bort |first1=Ryan |title=What Is Going on With Andrew Yang's Candidacy? |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/yang-gang-explained-810872/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=June 11, 2019 |date=March 20, 2019 |archive-date=August 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809100007/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/yang-gang-explained-810872/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

At one point in his life, Cage had decided that he wanted to develop the philosophical aspect of his nature, and he went on a quest to find the [[Holy Grail]]. Cage traveled to England to look for it, but also looked at some areas of the United States.<ref name="nyt">{{Cite magazine |last=Marchese |first=David |date=August 7, 2019 |title=Nicolas Cage on his legacy, his philosophy of acting and his metaphorical — and literal — search for the Holy Grail. |magazine=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/07/magazine/nicolas-cage-interview.html |access-date=January 30, 2023 |url-access=limited |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190811161614/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/07/magazine/nicolas-cage-interview.html |archive-date=August 11, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=August 7, 2019 |title=Nicolas Cage Lived National Treasure by Searching for the Holy Grail |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/08/nicolas-cage-holy-grail-quest-interview |access-date=January 30, 2023 |magazine=Vanity Fair |archive-date=December 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208020913/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/08/nicolas-cage-holy-grail-quest-interview |url-status=live }}</ref>