Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
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
If you try to make things happen, they start to feel presented. They start to feel premeditated.
Terrence Malick
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
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.