Cage Reveals Why Nolan Wont Return His Calls

name-checked a series of high-profile filmmakers who he said took his role rejections personally, not casting him in any future projects - or even returning his phone calls.

The Oscar-winning actor, 62, speaking Saturday with The New York Times, said that , Paul Thomas Anderson and were those who past offered him roles he turned down, effectively ending their professional associations.

Nolan ceased returning Cage's calls after he declined to appear in the 2002 motion picture Insomnia, which featured , and the late , the actor told the newspaper.

'Most of them, they get their feelings hurt and don't call you back,' said the Leaving star. 'It's happened a million times to me.'

Cage said that the filmmakers 'don't call [him] back' after he's spurned them.

The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Nolan and Anderson for further comment on the story. 

Cage said he had been in talks to work with Anderson, who recently won the Academy Award for best director for One Battle After Another, on 'a very early movie' in his career.