Editing Terrence Malick (section)

==Personal life==

While the perception of Malick as a [[recluse]] is inaccurate,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ann-hornaday-on-terrence-malick-tree-of-life-and-the-perils-of-auteur-worship/2011/06/02/AGvQDYHH_story.html|title=Ann Hornaday on Terrence Malick, 'Tree of Life' and the perils of auteur worship|last=Hornaday|first=Ann|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=June 2, 2011|access-date=October 23, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/hollywood-bigfoot-terrence-malick-and-the-20-year-hiatus-that-wasnt/#!|title=Hollywood Bigfoot: Terrence Malick and the 20-Year Hiatus That Wasn't|last=Nordine|first=Michael|magazine=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=May 12, 2013|access-date=October 23, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/sep/01/days-of-heaven-beautiful-film|title=Is Days of Heaven the most beautiful film ever made?|last=Thomson|first=David|newspaper=The Guardian|date=September 1, 2011|access-date=December 6, 2016}} "It was said in the press that he had disappeared, that he was a recluse who declined to become a public personality. I met him in the 90s and it turned out that there was nothing reclusive about him."</ref> he is nevertheless famously protective of his private life.<ref name="Skyarts" >{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007123112/http://www.skyarts.co.uk/film-docs/article/rosy-fingered-dawn-terrence-malick/|url=http://www.skyarts.co.uk/film-docs/article/rosy-fingered-dawn-terrence-malick|title=Rosy-Fingered Dawn – Terrence Malick|work=Sky Arts|date=January 10, 2010|publisher=Skyarts.co.uk|archive-date=October 7, 2010|access-date=March 21, 2012}}</ref> His contracts stipulate that his likeness may not be used for promotional purposes, and he routinely declines requests for interviews.<ref name="Biskind" /><ref name="Harvard Crimson">{{cite news|last=Davenport|first=Hayes|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510654|title=Alumni Watch: Terence Malick '65|work=[[The Harvard Crimson]]|date=December 15, 2005|access-date=May 3, 2007|archive-date=June 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605011128/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2005/12/15/alumni-watch-terrence-malick-65-by/|url-status=live}}</ref>

From 1970 to 1976, Malick was married to Jill Jakes.<ref name=tcm-bio>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/120355%7C0/Terrence-Malick/|title=Terrence Malick|publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]]|access-date=June 24, 2011}}</ref> His companion in the late 1970s was director and screenwriter Michie Gleason.<ref name=tcm-bio /> In 1985 in France, he married<ref name=tcm-bio /> Michèle Marie Morette,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mocavo.com/Terrence-Malick-Michele-Morette-Williamson-County-Texas-Marriage-Record-Index-1848-2012/12445901348961676697|title=Terrence Malick Michele Morette Williamson County Texas Marriage Record|work=[[Mocavo.com]]|access-date=June 22, 2014|archive-date=February 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215214549/http://www.mocavo.com/Terrence-Malick-Michele-Morette-Williamson-County-Texas-Marriage-Record-Index-1848-2012/12445901348961676697|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=theindependent>{{cite news|title=The secret life of Terrence Malick|first=Luke|last=Blackall|date=May 24, 2011|work=[[The Independent]]|location=UK|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-secret-life-of-terrence-malick-2288183.html|access-date=May 12, 2013|archive-date=June 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615034355/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-secret-life-of-terrence-malick-2288183.html|url-status=live|quote=Michele Morette, his late ex-wife of 13 years, revealed that while they were together she wasn't allowed into his office, and that he would rather buy her a copy of a book than lend her his own.}}</ref> whom he met in Paris in 1980; in 1996, Malick asked for a divorce, which was granted.<ref name=tcm-bio /><ref name=theindependent /> Afterward he married Alexandra "Ecky" Wallace, his high-school sweetheart.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201105/badlands-oral-history?printable=true|title=Badlands: An Oral History|date=May 1, 2011|first=Nathaniel|last=Penn|work=[[GQ]]|access-date=May 23, 2014}}</ref>

Malick's semi-autobiographical film ''[[To the Wonder]]'' was inspired by his relationships with Morette and Wallace.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite news|title=Terrence Malick's To the Wonder: A Gush of Cosmic Rapture|url=https://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/11/terrence-malicks-to-the-wonder-a-gush-of-cosmic-rapture/|newspaper=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=2016-02-10|first=R. N.|last=Corliss|authorlink=Richard Corliss}}</ref>

{{As of|2011|alt=Since at least 2011}}, Malick has lived in [[Austin, Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/terrence-malick/308683/|title=Brave Thinkers 2011: Terrence Malick|author-link=Graeme C.A. Wood|first=Graeme|last=Wood|date=October 3, 2011|work=[[The Atlantic]]|access-date=February 21, 2012|archive-date=August 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819040830/http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/terrence-malick/308683/|url-status=live}}</ref>