Nicolas Cage says some of Hollywood’s biggest directors stopped calling him after he turned down roles in their films, admitting that filmmakers often take rejection personally.

Speaking in a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times ahead of the premiere of his new series, Spider-Noir, Cage reflected on missed opportunities in his career, including declining a role in Christopher Nolan’s 2002 thriller Insomnia.

“David O. Russell offered me a movie a million years ago. It was a good movie, and he offered it, and I said no, and he’s the only director that I ever said no to who actually came back and offered me another movie,” Cage told the Times. “Most of them, they get their feelings hurt and don’t call you back. It’s happened a million times to me. It’s happened with Christopher Nolan, it’s happened with Woody Allen, it’s happened with Paul Thomas Anderson. They don’t call me back.”

The Oscar-winning actor said Nolan’s film was “Insomnia,” starring Al Pacino and Robin Williams.

Cage, however, praised filmmaker David O. Russell for reconnecting with him years later for Madden, a film about NFL legend John Madden.

“Anyway, David did call me, and it showed a lot of class that he would call me back and invite me again, and I didn’t want to say no to him again because I have great respect for his talent,” Cage said.

Spider-Noir premieres Monday in the U.S. on MGM+ and globally on Prime Video on Wednesday.