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American
-
Director
Born:
November 30
, 1943
I was not a good teacher; I didn't have the sort of edge one should have on the students, so I decided to do something else.
Terrence Malick
Good Teacher
Teacher
Good
Students
Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
Terrence Malick
Feeling
Powerful
Nostalgia
Anything
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
People
Important
Reach
Personal
If you try to make things happen, they start to feel presented. They start to feel premeditated.
Terrence Malick
You
Feel
Things Happen
Start
It was in Austin that I had the idea for 'Days of Heaven.' I found myself alone for a summer in the town I had left as a high school student. There were those green, undulating hills, and this very beautiful river, the Colorado. The place is inspired and inspiring.
Terrence Malick
Beautiful
Myself
Alone
Green
Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man.
Terrence Malick
Man
Extraordinary
He
Gifted
I prefer working behind the camera.
Terrence Malick
Camera
Behind
Working
Prefer
There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.
Terrence Malick
Good
Pictures
See
Like
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
Attitude
Eyes
You
Your
You can't live in Austin and escape the music.
Terrence Malick
Music
You
Live
Escape
I have trouble working off things that are too preconceived, like storyboards.
Terrence Malick
Trouble
Things
Like
Off
When things become too prepared, the life comes out of it.
Terrence Malick
Life
Things
Become
Out
Perhaps when I have 10 films behind me, I will have something worth saying.
Terrence Malick
Me
Saying
Will
Behind
I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.
Terrence Malick
Way
Movies
Always
Career
I came to Los Angeles in the fall of 1969 to study at the AFI.
Terrence Malick
Fall
Study
Los Angeles
I Came
Children's books are full of violence.
Terrence Malick
Children
Violence
Books
Full
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