Malick's Quotes

#1. I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.

Owen Wilson

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

Terrence Malick

#3. Women don't have an expiration date.

Wendie Malick

#4. When I first met my girlfriend, Mercy Malick, she asked me if there was anything I should tell her that could put her off me if she found out later. So I told her that I was a total 'Star Wars' geek and had boxes of 'Star Wars' toys in storage.

Joseph Gatt

#5. I prefer working behind the camera.

Terrence Malick

#6. Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.

Malick Sidibe

#7. It's all the same. It's the same face. We always look for an idea, for the same face, for the same position. There is no such thing as a European or an African photography. It's all the same thing.

Malick Sidibe

#8. The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that first and say yes to people like Terrence Malick and Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen when they come and offer you movies. It's a great front row seat to filmmaking.

Sean Penn

#9. Malick to Jacin: There is no trade anymore, you're not nothing, you didn't kill Caidi, you're going to be the most beautiful-dangerous Incendiary the gods have ever seen, and I fucking love you. Deal with it.

Carole Cummings

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

Terrence Malick

#11. Every time you get something, give something away.

Wendie Malick

#12. I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

Wendie Malick

#13. 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

#14. If I hadn't left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn't have met my husband and I wouldn't have had the children that I've had. Life is interesting like that.

Sissy Spacek

#15. I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.

Wendie Malick

#16. Before I knew the camera, I knew about images. It's all about trying to make light with a pencil or with a crayon. It really helped me in the beginning, because I understood how light and shadow were working on an image.

Malick Sidibe

#17. Have it your way, then. Pretend you don't hear your own voice inside the din. Pretend its not telling you things you don't want to know. Pretend that your deepest, most secret wish isn't that someone would love you like you know Malick can, if you let him.

Carole Cummings

#18. When you're on a Terrence Malick film, it's like you're part of a family.

Jessica Chastain

#19. I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.

Wendie Malick

#20. 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

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

Terrence Malick

#22. They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

Wendie Malick

#23. 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

#24. I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.

Malick Sidibe

#25. Fuck you."
"Promise?

Carole Cummings

#26. I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.

Colin Stetson

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

Terrence Malick

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

Terrence Malick

#29. 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

#30. The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.

Wendie Malick

#31. 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

#32. What really helps motivate me to walk are my dogs, who are my best pals. They keep you honest about walking because when it's time to go, you can't disappoint those little faces.

Wendie Malick

#33. Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health - I don't abuse it.

Betty White

#34. 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

#35. People said if [I] was at a party, it gave it prestige. I would let people know I'd arrived by letting off my flash ... You could feel the temperature rise right away.

Malick Sidibe

#36. Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.

Olga Kurylenko

#37. It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

Wendie Malick

#38. On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.

Olga Kurylenko

#39. Say that you love me. You don't have to mean it. You can lie. Just say it so I can pretend for a little while
Fen to Malick - Weregild

Carole Cummings