Terrence Malick Quotations

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.

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

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.'

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

My attitude is always let it keep rolling

I prefer working behind the camera.

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. And love is smiling through all things.

If you want to be a filmmaker, ask yourself if you could imagine doing any other job. If you can, that’s a script!

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?

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

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