Quotes About Terrence Malick

#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. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Jessica Chastain

#7. 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

#8. I prefer working behind the camera.

Terrence Malick

#9. 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

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

Terrence Malick

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

Terrence Malick

#12. In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Lydia Sigourney

#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. Duden Dictionary Meaning #4. Wort - Word: A meaningful unit of language / a promise / a short remark, statement, or conversation. Related words: term, name, expession.

Markus Zusak

#15. All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs.

Charles Baudelaire

#16. The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

Omar Bongo

#17. I'm not drunk," Cithrin said. "You aren't," Yardem agreed. "Then why can't I have another glass?" "Because that's how you stay not drunk.

Daniel Abraham

#18. Truth cage your freedom... you are not anymore free have this in mind.

Deyth Banger

#19. At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

Albert Einstein

#20. Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters".

James Marcus

#21. You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#22. Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.

Pauline Kael

#23. Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.

Corliss Lamont

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Terrence Malick

#27. 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

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

Terrence Malick

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

Terrence Malick

#30. 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

#31. Self-justification is unjust.

Toba Beta