Badlands

“Badlands. Terry Malick made this movie. It’s one of his great films. Coupling sort of rebellion and youth and suburbia with this strange, kind of monstrous-feeling violence that seems inexplicable. And he really captured the sort of both the beauty and the pain of that place and time and that idea.”

“We were real into this movie. Remember you painted— you repainted... You painted the cover. I don’t even paint. That’s the weird thing. That’s how much we were inspired by Badlands. I took up painting just to paint the cover of Badlands.”

“Terrence Malick, Badlands. I love this movie so much. 1973. I think this may be my favorite Terrence Malick. Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. I mean, the beautiful performances in this... I think it’s one of the great road movies of all time. And one of the things that I most love about Badlands is I think it may be one of the best car chases in cinema ever... He doesn’t overpower it with stunt driving... It looks like these cars are about to break every second.”

“I saw Badlands and now I can't see it. It's my favorite film by the way. This is what Terrence Malick is a genius. I just find it really dreamy. Remember seeing it the first time and then forgetting what it was and what it was called but remembering like a shot of a piano on fire and then that xylophone tune that's all the way through it and just individual images like dreamlike that's an absolutely beautiful film. This is real filmmaking.”

“Oh boy, this is one of all-timers: Badlands. Terrence Malick's first movie, and this is one of the great examples of the unreliable narrator, which is hard to pull off in movies. Sissy Spacek is telling a story that is different than the one we're watching. She's telling us a romance, in a way we're watching a murder of a psychopath crossing the plains of America. A stunning movie, I think it's my favorite Terrence Malick movie still.”