Terrence Malick Quotes & Sayings

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.' — Terrence Malick

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? — Terrence Malick

Toscanini once recorded a piece sixty five times. You know what he said when he finished? "It could be better." Think about it. — Terrence Malick

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

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. — Terrence Malick

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

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. And love is smiling through all things. — Terrence Malick

I prefer working behind the camera. — Terrence Malick

Life goes on. people pass along. nothing stays the same. the lord gives and the lord takes away. thats the way he is ... ! — Terrence Malick

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

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

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

I will be true to you. Whatever comes. — Terrence Malick

Where is it that we were together? Who were you that I lived with? The brother. The friend. Darkness, light. Strife and love. Are they the workings of one mind? The features of the same face? Oh, my soul. Let me be in you now. Look out through my eyes. Look out at the things you made. All things shining. — Terrence Malick