“I may have three or four more movies left in me,” the Dream Scenario actor told Vanity Fair. “I do feel I’ve said what I’ve had to say with cinema. I think I took film performance as far as I could … I do want to get much more severe and stringent in my selection process … I want to say bye on a high note.”

Cage added that his father died at 75 and calculates he may have only 15 years left (“hopefully more”). “What do I want to do with those 15 years, using my father as the model?” the married father of three asked. “It occurred very clearly to me that I want to spend time with my family … I’m starting to cement my plan.”

That said, Cage said he’s open to trying other forms of acting, such as a television series, which he’s never done.

[Really? There’s a lot of scenery left in Hollywood to chew, and few chew it as enthusiastically as Cage. He reminds me of Richard Burton in that way, who was often good and occasionally awful on screen. Both of them are like the little girl with the little curl in the schoolyard rhyme: When he’s good, he’s very very good — but when he’s bad, he’s horrid. — Ed]