Terrence Malick Quotes
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My attitude is always let it keep rolling.
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The nuns taught us there are two ways through life... the way of Nature... and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy... when all the world is shining around it... when love is smiling through all things.
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Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
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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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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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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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Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.
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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?