„Nature is how you perceive it.“

Produkční designér a dlouholetý Malickův spolupracovník Jack Fisk o rozdílu mezi pohledem na přírodu v Malickově díle a ve filmu The Revenant (2015) Alejandra G. Iñárritua:

„I think Alejandro perceives nature as being against you, and Terrence sees nature as being with you. It’s a different approach. It’s really about being in reality. Nature is how you perceive it. Terry is a philosopher and he’s a birder, and he loves nature, and he gets out in it whenever he can. Alejandro comes from Mexico City, and it was a challenge for him. The excitement for him was doing a manly film about survival in nature, so it’s a very different approach than what Terry has. But it’s interesting that they use the same cinematographer and some of the same techniques. There’s quite a difference in their work.“

(Zdroj: Vulture.com)

„It was all about nature.“

„In Virginia, Nature was uncivilized. So we shot the scenes according to Nature. When the settlers came in there was a lot of fennel, they had to cut a lot of it, so we were very careful about not destroying the places where we wanted to have nature untouched. For example, we shot the birds in a very specific period. Terry knows everything about nature. He knows which birds migrate at what times. Sometimes he would say, ‚Shoot this bird now, but you have to finish before the end of August because it won’t be there any more after that,‘ and again: ‚The fennel will be gone by the end of September, so we should propably plan to have a crop at the right moment and the corn ripe at the right moment.‘ So they planned very much in advance and we shot it when it needed to be shot. This was the only restriction. It was all about nature.“

Kameraman Jörg Widmer o natáčení Nového světa
(Terrence Malick: Rehearsing the Unexpected, s. 286-287)