Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

I love William Shakespeare. He wrote some of the rawest stories. I mean look at Romeo and Juliet. That's some serious ghetto expletive. You got this guy Romeo from the Bloods who falls for Juliet, a female from the Crips, and everybody in both gangs are against them. So they have to sneak out and they end up dead for nothing. Real tragic stuff.

When I was in high school, I fell in love with Olivia Hussey in 'Romeo And Juliet.'

The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

I've always found it funny when people call 'Romeo and Juliet' 'the greatest love story ever told' because - man - it does not work out well for those kids, you know? I'd like to think the greatest love story ever told would at least let them be together for more than a few hours.

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

I loved the Romeo and Juliet of the whole thing; this forbidden love between these two characters.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

Hannakins: I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V. -A

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.

Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

Romeo and Juliet' is two love addicts acting out, and look how that ended.

If I were to do a drama again, I would really like to work on a fatal melodrama, like a love that can't be.

Olivia Hussey from Zefferelli's 'Romeo and Juliet' makes the intense vulnerability of true love look magnificent.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

The star-crossed lovers

The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)

I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.

Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.

I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.

If a film is about love, it tends to be about tortured love or discovering love or young love. It's not this wonderful kind of comfortable, old resilient love.

Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that's at the center of my music.

'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Manon,' 'Giselle' - they are not stupid stories. They have fantastic characters. They have a big package of emotion.