With Tree of Life in theaters we had set out to do a piece on all of Terrence Malick\’s films and things you may or may not have known about them — that was the goal.

And in doing our research across the web and in books, we realized the best A-list, most authoritative quotes on the subject came from the Criterion disc extras — which we watched and enjoyed when it came out in 2007 — so we decided to use a lot of the quotes therein to support some of the well-known (or semi-well known) points about the production.

So, as any writer does, they use the best material at hand to shape their thesis.

So yes? Also, sue us? Also, have you seen anything else this in-depth on the web? Also, so what, this makes us assholes? Do not get the criticism here at all.

You\’ll also note their are quotes and supporting points from Nestor Almendros\’ autobiography, the Malick doc Rosy Fingered Dawn, A Roger Ebert article, Peter Biskind\’s Easy Riders and Raging Bulls, a Village Voice article with Sam Shepard, but it\’s really hard to top the quotes in the Criterion DVD, so we used them. Without shame I might add.