Rod Serling
Rod Serling
Rodman Edward "Rod" Serlingwas an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science-fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen, and helped form television industry standards. He was known as the "angry young man" of Hollywood, clashing with television executives and sponsors over a wide range of issues including censorship, racism, and war...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth25 December 1924
CitySyracuse, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.
I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's been a major problem over the years. But obviously, to the young writer that's unfair and it's discriminatory, and it can be very hurtful to one's career.
I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!
I guess we all have a little vaunting itch for immortality, I guess that must be it.
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
I think Willa Cather did a short story called "Paul's Case," and in it, when he finally commits suicide, it says, "He surrendered to the black design of things." And that's what I anticipate death will be: a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything. I think once around is enough. I don't want to start it all over again.
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.
I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
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.
Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.
for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized
Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.