Shervin Pishevar Quotes

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.

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.

'The Notebook' gets me every time. It's a great love story. Boy from the wrong side of the tracks. They get on each other's nerves, but they can't live without each other. It almost makes me shed a tear.

My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story.

'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.

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

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

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.

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

It's pretty hard to play 'Romeo and Juliet' with someone and not fall in love.

As a writer - and a romance novelist, no less - I've always found it a bit odd when characters in comic books remain in relationship limbo for years at a time.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

People kill for love. They die for love.

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

'American Drifter''s romance was inspired by a dream I had.

I want to do a love story. I really want to do a love story.

I like romance in films. I like love in films.

I read 'Love in the Time of Cholera' when I was 19, and I still think about the characters.

'The Virginian' has a very important romantic story line that you don't find in a lot of Westerns... At the heart of the story is quite a bit of pain and a sense of loss.

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.

'Kaavalan' is not like 'Sivakasi' or 'Pokri'; it's a love story.

I am a sucker for that childhood romance narrative.