“There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movem...” — Leonard Cohen Quote

There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Man, your head is haunted; you have wheels in your head! You imagine great things, and depict to yourself a whole world of gods that has an existence for you, a spirit-realm to which you suppose yourself to be called, an ideal that beckons to you. You have a fixed idea!

If you depict one home and the drama moving around one family, people love it because the characters become identifiable.

I'm not keen on films which depict a lot of violence.

The hardest thing in the world to depict dramatically is stand-up.

I love how South Indian films depict life and love.