What has Milton done? How long he's been in hell? How did he get out?

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 413.

Nicolas Cage: “Yeah, yeah, I have some answers that I will keep to myself. But for me, without saying too much about Milton because I want to keep him in that mystery zone, and he is like a ghost. He's a living dead man. Whatever a ghost would be like, if a ghost walked into a room, it might be like a vacuum, it might suck all the air out of the room, it might just be very still and you'd probably wonder what is it thinking. I was trying to find ways of kind of giving that aura to Milton at any moment, at least that was the challenge I'd had in my own mind while I was filming it. I think the best examples of it are the scene in the church when Billy Burke, his character is not giving me the child and then he's explaining what he did to my daughter. Whereas you would think that Milton would just start screaming and going nuts because it's in the title, Drive Angry, it's not that. It's more like amused by this person. That's what I wanted to convey, a kind of otherness. And, also, the scene at the trashcan; there's an otherness to Milton that makes you think that he's actually motivated by something more than just anger. The anger is from when he was alive. When he was alive, he was probably listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Buddy Holly, but after he broke out of hell, it's all just wind chimes and Ravi Shankhar. No lyrics. Absolutely no lyrics.”