Rod Serling Quotes

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  • I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

    "About Rod Serling". Rod Serling profile at "American Masters", www.pbs.org. December 29, 2003.
  • You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone.

    The Twilight Zone (television series), opening narration (1959)
  • I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything.

  • I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.

    Source: www.rodserling.com
  • The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.

    Guy   Together   Agents  
    Source: www.rodserling.com
  • This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.

    Iron   Enemy   Boots  
    "The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1961.
  • 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.

  • I'm frequently surprised, sometimes bugged off, and sometimes happy, depending on the actor. It's a fact of life that just as often as not an actor can breathe life into a line as he can destroy it by misinterpretation, and I've been blessed frequently by having good actors.

    Blessed   Actors   Lines  
    Source: www.rodserling.com
  • 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.

  • In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

    "Serling in Creative Mainstream". Interview with Ellen Cameron May, Los Angeles Times (pp. C22-23), June 25, 1967.
  • 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.

    Pages   Hell   Counting  
    Source: www.rodserling.com
  • You can become much more independent, much more courageous with a bank account. And also, much more independent and self-reliant when you know you have money behind you.

    Source: www.rodserling.com
  • 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.

    Twilight   Science   Men  
    The Twilight Zone (television series), opening narration (1963)
  • Infinitely more taboos, on television.

    Source: www.rodserling.com
  • But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street? A rather good question to ask - particularly in The Twilight Zone.

    "Fictional character: Narrator". "The Twilight Zone/ The After Hours", www.imdb.com. 1960.
  • You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

  • You unlock the door with the key of imagination.

  • If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

    Writing   Ifs  
    Source: www.rodserling.com
  • 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.

    Machines   Used   Type  
    Source: www.rodserling.com
  • 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.

  • I have compromised down the line. I've disliked it intensely in the old days when you were trying to talk race relations and they would not allow you to talk about the legitimacies of race relations. In the old days, you didn't talk about black, you talked about Eskimo or American Indian, and the American Indian was assumed not to be a problem area.

    Race   Black   Trying  
    Source: www.rodserling.com
  • I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be ultimately a simple humanity for humanity's sake.

  • I guess we all have a little vaunting itch for immortality, I guess that must be it.

    Source: www.rodserling.com
  • Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

  • Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

  • Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized.

    Ideas   Born   Heard  
  • Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting in the Twilight Zone.

    Stars   Twilight   Space  
    Rod Serling (1990). “The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories”, TV Books Incorporated
  • I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director and the cast, that I miss. But, no, I'm happy, I'm happy doing film.

    Source: www.rodserling.com
  • Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

  • Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.

    Writing   Way   Enough  
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