TERRENCE MALICK

Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always let it keep rolling.

I have trouble working off things that are too preconceived, like storyboards.

What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?

The nuns taught us there are two ways through life... the way of Nature... and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy... when all the world is shining around it... when love is smiling through all things.

Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.

You can't live in Austin and escape the music.

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man.

I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do something else.

I prefer working behind the camera.

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.

Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man.

I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

Perhaps when I have 10 films behind me, I will have something worth saying.

When things become too prepared, the life comes out of it.

I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do something else.

If you try to make things happen, they start to feel presented. They start to feel premeditated.

It was in Austin that I had the idea for 'Days of Heaven.' I found myself alone for a summer in the town I had left as a high school student. There were those green, undulating hills, and this very beautiful river, the Colorado. The place is inspired and inspiring.

I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.

I came to Los Angeles in the fall of 1969 to study at the AFI.

You can't live in Austin and escape the music.

I have trouble working off things that are too preconceived, like storyboards.

Children's books are full of violence.

The nuns taught us there are two ways through life... the way of Nature... and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy... when all the world is shining around it... when love is smiling through all things.

Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.

My attitude is always let it keep rolling.

What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?

Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always let it keep rolling.