When I go to bed at night and I think of humanity at large, I think of all those things.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

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.

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.

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

I don't believe there are climate skeptics. I think there are people who indulge in a culture of what can be reduced to Fox network thinking. That has nothing to do with the politics that apply to the protection of quality of life in any sense. It's like talking to a member of a cult.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.