I think we all have light and dark inside us.

Women are the best. The toughest. The bane of my existence. And I'll forever fall for it.

I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory view of good and evil. I believe this is a big world full of men, women, and children who struggle to eat, to love, to work, to protect their families, their beliefs, and their dreams.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing there and what I was supposed to add in that context! What's more, Terry Malick himself never managed to explain it to me clearly.