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  • 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.

    "Conversation: Graphic Novelist, Director Marjane Satrapi". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. August 17, 2012.