After Days of Heaven (1978), it was a full twenty years before he directed his next film, The Thin Red Line (1998).
[on setting a film in the modern day] I remember feeling timid about it because it's hard to project yourself into the present. I think making a contemporary film you think about what images haven't been used in advertising... but what you come see ...
Known for drastically reducing or completely removing actors from his films
Terry
Terrence Frederick Malick
Ottawa, Illinois, USA