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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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Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure.
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I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.
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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.
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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.
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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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Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.
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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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for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.
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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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Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.
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This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. . . Next stop The Twilight Zone.
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I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'
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You unlock the door with the key of imagination.
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I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated.
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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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I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.
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Seeing does not always believe.
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Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.
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Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.
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Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
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