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Rod Serling Quotes
Birthday: | December 25, 1924 |
Death: | June 28, 1975 |
Educated At: | Antioch College, Antioch University |
Manner of Death: | Natural Causes |
Nationality: | United States Of America |
Occupations: | Science Fiction Writer, Film Producer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer |
Spouse: | Carol Serling |
Total quotes: 48
Rod Serling
BirthnameBirthday: December 25, 1924
Death: June 28, 1975
Educated At: Antioch College, Antioch University
Manner of Death: Natural Causes
Nationality: United States Of America
Occupations: Science Fiction Writer, Film Producer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer
Spouse: Carol Serling
Total quotes: 48
“The crowd slowly dispersed in soft, whispering groups, voices muted by the fascination of death that all men carry with them in small pockets deep inside them.”
Tagged:
Death
“Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible.”
Tagged:
Fantasy, Science Fiction
“...a medium best suited to illumine and dramatize the issues of the times has its product pressed into a mold, painted lily-white, and has its dramatic teeth yanked out one by one.”
Tagged:
Writing, Television
“We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.”
Tagged:
Brainwashing, Thinking
“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.”
Tagged:
Survival, Second Amendment
“I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.”
Tagged:
Prejudice
“In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.”
Tagged:
Writing
“You see, we can feed the stomach with concentrates, we can supply microfilm for reading, recreation, even movies of a sort, we can pump oxygen in, and waste material out, but there’s one thing we can’t simulate. That’s a very basic need. Man’s hunger for companionship. The barrier of loneliness, that’s one thing we haven’t licked yet.”
Tagged:
Microfilm, Loneliness
“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.”
Tagged:
Television, advertisements
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