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1924–1975 United States
Rodman Edward Serling (25 December 1924 – 28 June 1975) was an American writer and television producer best remembered for his science fiction TV series The Twilight Zone.
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Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
It is said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, and fantasy is the impossible made probable.
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.
Every man’s death does diminish us. And it follows that every man’s poverty, every man’s indignity, every man’s frustration and hopelessness – they are a part of mankind.
If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.
Speech at Binghamton Community High School (1968)
For the first time in television a writer will have the opportunity to let his imagination take him where ever he wants to. The sky is no longer the limit.
“I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.”
If you need drugs to be a good writer, you're not a good writer.
This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.
I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.
The first sale, that's the one that comes with magic.
You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!
You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight zone!
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.
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.
[T]he ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.
Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.
As I get older the urge to write gets less and less; I've pretty much spewed out everything I have to say, none of which has been particularly monumental; nothing that will stand the test of time. Good writing like wine has to age well, and my stuff has been momentarily adequate.
I was bitter about everything and at loose ends when I got out of the service. I think I turned to writing to get it off my chest.
All the Dachaus must remain standing.
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