Extended Reading

1492: Conquest of Paradise quotes

  • Columbus: Paradise and hell both can be earthly.

  • Sanchez: [Columbus stops Sanchez after he leaves an audience with the Queen. Sanchez looks at him, disgusted] You're a dreamer.

    Columbus: [shooting a glance out of a window] Tell me, what do you see?

    Sanchez: [pausing to look] I see rooftops, I see palaces, I see towers, I see spires that reach... to the sky! I see civilisation!

    Columbus: All of them built by people like me.

    [Sanchez doesn't respond - shocked]

    Columbus: No matter how long you live, Sanchez, there is something that will never change between us. I did it. You didn't.