Terrence Malick Quotes

#1. 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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#8. I prefer working behind the camera.

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#9. I will be true to you. Whatever comes.

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

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#11. 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?

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#12. 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.

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