--- title: "9 Dramatists Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Dramatists quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Dramatists sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/178/ridley-scott-1610_thinking_i-think-moviemakers-are-dramatists-14181_1418145.jpg" --- > [I think moviemakers are dramatists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/i-think-moviemakers-are-dramatists/) [Ridley Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ridley-scott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/178/ridley-scott-1610_thinking_i-think-moviemakers-are-dramatists-14181_1418145.jpg) > [I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-stone/i-m-a-dramatist-dramatists-have-a-right-to-look-at-history-and/) [Oliver Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-stone/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8d/oliver-stone-1812_history_i-m-a-dramatist-dramatists-have-a-right_47593.jpg) > [I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-monahan/i-learned-my-job-from-english-dramatists-tennessee-williams-was-no/) [William Monahan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-monahan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c3/william-monahan-3226_jobs_i-learned-my-job-from-english-dramatists_1136097.jpg) > [I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-barker/i-am-so-far-as-i-am-aware-not-at-all-influenced-by-dramatists-expect/) [Howard Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-barker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc1/howard-barker-28866_impossible_i-am-so-far-as-i-am-aware-not-at-all-inf_755193.jpg) > [The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thornton-wilder/the-theatre-is-supremely-fitted-to-say-behold-these-things-are-yet/) [Thornton Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thornton-wilder/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecf/thornton-wilder-1495_action_the-theatre-is-supremely-fitted-to-say-b_975546.jpg) > [In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brooks-atkinson/in-the-1920s-dramatists-attacked-their-subjects-as-if-the-inequities/) [Brooks Atkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brooks-atkinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fd/brooks-atkinson-15117_actor_in-the-1920s-dramatists-attacked-their-s_2703968.jpg) > [The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-hall/the-theatre-has-always-been-voraciously-omnivorous-dramatists-have/) [Lee Hall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-hall/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf1/lee-hall-32594_actor_the-theatre-has-always-been-voraciously_369109.jpg) > [I find it extraordinary that contemporary dramatists don't find women interesting. Women are rarely, if ever, the central dramatic engine; they're there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glenda-jackson/i-find-it-extraordinary-that-contemporary-dramatists-don-t-find-women/) [Glenda Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glenda-jackson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d9/glenda-jackson-10384_dramatic_i-find-it-extraordinary-that-contemporar_2682014.jpg) > [I, too, am deeply concerned with an overarching idea that dramaturgs are now authors . . .. I am not taking the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-rosemary-scallon/i-too-am-deeply-concerned-with-an-overarching-idea-that-dramaturgs/) [Dana Rosemary Scallon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-rosemary-scallon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/354/dana-rosemary-scallon-97785_actor_i-too-am-deeply-concerned-with-an-overar_1325311.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dramatists/#itemlist", "name": "Dramatists Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think moviemakers are dramatists.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ridley Scott" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ridley-scott/i-think-moviemakers-are-dramatists/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/178/ridley-scott-1610_thinking_i-think-moviemakers-are-dramatists-14181_1418145.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/178/ridley-scott-1610_thinking_i-think-moviemakers-are-dramatists-14181_1418145.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/178/ridley-scott-1610_thinking_i-think-moviemakers-are-dramatists-14181_1418145.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think moviemakers are dramatists.” — Ridley Scott", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm a dramatist. 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