I saw Terrence Malick at a store in Austin yesterday. I told

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I saw Terrence Malick at a store in Austin yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be like Christopher Plummer and bother him and ask him for a well written script or anything.

He said, “I'm walking to Oklahoma!”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “Yeah, I'm looking at birds!” and trying to hide behind Benicio del Toro. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him talking to a potted plant as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Zoolander DVDs in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be a Western Exile and not acknowledge her as being-in-the-world, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the DVDs and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any loss of the Wonder,” and then turned his Steadicam around. I don’t even think that’s a cinematographic technique. After she scanned each DVD and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by reciting Bible passages really loudly.