„There's a script, but he writes every morning. And then you go through another one in the editing and when the sound comes in. He cuts and cuts again and then as we are color timing the movie, he finds new things and he keeps changing. So you are never 100% sure where the shots that you are shooting are going to end up in the movie. But I think he does know when he is miles ahead of everybody on the set and he's already planning and thinking and creating all these scenes that are probably not on paper, but in his head. (...) So the actors are performing the dialogue, but Terry (Malick) isn’t
interested in dialogue. So they’re talking, and we’re shooting a
reflection or we’re shooting the wind or we’re shooting the frame of the
window, and then we finally pan to them when they finish the dialogue.” (Emmanuel Lubezki, director de imagine la The Tree of Life via hitfix.com)