Ryan North Quotes

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.

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

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

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.

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

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

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.

I wanted to make a real love story with a bad ending, because a love story that ends good is the life of everyone - you and I, for example. I always say to people, You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them. Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, mama, mama, papa, papa.

The star-crossed lovers

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.

I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they together? A few days.

I always say to people, 'You know, if Romeo and Juliet got married, nobody would care about them.' Imagine Romeo and Juliet, six kids yelling, 'Mama, Mama, Papa, Papa!'

When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.

For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

'Casebook' is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.

Star-crossed lovers who have a destiny that isn't necessarily going to work in their favor - that's a universal story; that's an archetypal story.

Aftab has been singularly unfortunate in love.

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

I had always been moved by the story and love of Antony and Cleopatra. Their love moved and changed the world. While their love ended in tragedy, their love endured the march of time. Their passion lit the world on fire.