Rod Serling Quotes
Top 67 wise famous quotes and sayings by Rod Serling
Rod Serling Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.
Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete
The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.
How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?
Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.
I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.
If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant ... then you're in deep trouble.
I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.
I couldn't direct because I'm too impatient and I couldn't put together a package because I don't understand money. I'd rather just do what I'm doing.
Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.
Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.
We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.
There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.
I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.
He's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell.
Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.
If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.
I choose to think of tv audience as nameless, formless, faceless people who are all like me. And anything that I write, if I like it, they'll like it.
The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.
I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted scenes.
Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything.
I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful.
Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.
I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.
You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.