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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
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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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You unlock the door with the key of imagination.
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All the Dachaus must remain standing.
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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.
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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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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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The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in becoming narcissistic.
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Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.
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Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.
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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 tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices . . . . And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
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You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.
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If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.
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I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.
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Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
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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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You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.
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How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art form should be dictated and controlled by men whose training and instincts are cut of an entirely different cloth. The fact remains that these gentlemen sell consumer goods, not an art form.
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I'd love to be able to write an in-depth piece of what causes men like [Richard] Nixon and [H.R.]Haldeman and [John] Ehrlichman and all the rest of them not only to run, but what causes us to vote for them.
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Seeing does not always believe.
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