Terrence Malick Net Worth

Terrence Malick's Quotes

• [on Badlands (1973)] I tried to keep the 1950s to a bare minimum. Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything. I wanted the picture to set up like a fairy tale, outside time, like Treasure Island. I hoped this would, among other things, take a little of the sharpness out of the violence, but still keep its dreamy quality.
• [on working with Martin Sheen on Badlands (1973)] Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man. He's from a working class family, so he had all the moods down for the film. And when he wasn't before the cameras, he was helping in the background, wrapping cables, packing up light reflectors. One day I found him going around a gas station and picking up aluminum snapback lids from soda cans. He knew they didn't exist in 1959.
• [on The New World (2005)] I knew it would have a slow, rolling pace. Just get into it; let it roll over you. It's more of an experience film. I leave you to fend for yourself, figure things out yourself.
• [on his future] There's a good many pictures I'd like to make, we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.
• [on his methodology] 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.

Interesting Facts about Terrence Malick

1. M.F.A. from the American Film Institute.
2. Attended St. Stephen's High School in Austin, Texas, where he played football. A resident of Austin, he was inducted there into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in March 2002.
3. In his contract for directing The Thin Red Line (1998), he stated that no current pictures of him could be published or shown anywhere.
4. Wrote a treatment for Dirty Harry (1971) but none of his work appears in the final version.
5. After Days of Heaven (1978), it was a full twenty years before he directed his next film, The Thin Red Line (1998).
6. Appeared as unannounced guest on the screening of Badlands (1973) in the retrospective section of the 54th. Berlin film festival in 2004.
7. Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 636-639. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
8. He grew up on a farm and worked as a farmhand before studying philosophy at Harvard. After graduating he went to Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar but left before finishing his thesis (on Martin Heidegger) after a disagreement with his advisor. He moved back to the United States and taught philosophy at M.I.T. while freelancing as a journalist.
9. Turned down an offer to direct The Elephant Man (1980).
10. Wrote an unused draft of Great Balls of Fire! (1989).
11. Notoriously withdrawn from public life, his friends, such as Martin Sheen, have always remarked that he is a very warm and humble man who prefers to work without medial intrusion.
12. Phi Beta Kappa student.
13. His grandfather was an Assyrian Christian immigrant to the USA; "Malick" means "king" in Arabic.
14. Terrence Malick is step-father to actor, producer, and director, Will Wallace.
15. Began his film career at the age of 25.
16. Wrote an early draft of Dirty Harry (1971).
17. One of the most praised aspects of his films are the quality of its cinematography. As of 2014, four of his films have been Oscar-nominated in the Best Cinematography category: Days of Heaven (1978), The Thin Red Line (1998), The New World (2005) and The Tree of Life (2011). Only Days of Heaven (1978) managed to win in the category and still is the only Oscar ever given to a Malick film.
18. Has worked with four different actors who played the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman: George Clooney, Christian Bale, Ben Affleck and Val Kilmer.
19. His film To the Wonder (2012) was the last film that Roger Ebert reviewed.
20. Worked as a Journalist for Newsweek, Life and the New Yorker before pursuing a career in film.