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Rod Serling
Age: 50 †
Born: 1924
Born: December 25
Died: 1975
Died: June 28
Film Producer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Syracuse
New York
Rodman Edward Serling
Taboos
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Infinitely
Television

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Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his piece, it is so visual, his moods are introduced and buttressed by camera rather than by word or character. But again, that's unique.
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for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.
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Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.
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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
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Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.
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I'm an affluent screenwriter and all that - I'm a known screenwriter, but I'm not in the fraternity of the very, very major people. I would say a guy like Ernie Lehman, William Goldman, and a few others are quite a cut above.
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Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.
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There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
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Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.
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Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.
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Apparently on the screen I look tall, ageless, and damned close to omniscient-delivering jeopardy-laden warnings through gritted teeth. But when people see me on the street, they say 'by God, this kid is 5 foot 5, he's got a broken nose, and looks about as foreboding as a bank teller on a lunch break.'
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I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants.
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If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.
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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.
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Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.
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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.
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You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.
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The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct, he was obsolete. But so was the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under 'M' for mankind... in the Twilight Zone.
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I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.
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All the Dachaus must remain standing.
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