Terrence Malick Quotes

You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.

My style is very spontaneous.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

I am more spontaneous than my character.

I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

There is spontaneity to my work.

I am someone who does not plan a lot. I go with the flow, and I just want people to know me as an actor.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

I like to work spontaneously.

As an idea occurs to me, I'll either follow it or not, but I'm more instinctive than master-planner about stuff.

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.

I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan.

I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it.

I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

I love being unpredictable and unexpected.

You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

Don't think too much. The best pictures come naturally.

I am not premeditated in what I am going to say. That means there will be times I regret saying certain things.