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I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.
— Rod Serling
Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete
— Rod Serling
I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.
— Rod Serling
The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.
— Rod Serling
How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?
— Rod Serling
I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.
— Rod Serling
If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant ... then you're in deep trouble.
— Rod Serling
I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.
— Rod Serling
You unlock the door with the key of imagination.
— Rod Serling
I'm a huge fan of the Rod Serling sci-fi, where they could take the most odd and enormous ideas but ground them in something very human.
— Mark Millar
Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.
— Rod Serling
Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.
— Rod Serling
I couldn't direct because I'm too impatient and I couldn't put together a package because I don't understand money. I'd rather just do what I'm doing.
— Rod Serling
Seeing does not always believe.
— Rod Serling
Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.
— Rod Serling
Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.
— Rod Serling
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
— Rod Serling
Infinitely more taboos, on television.
— Rod Serling
We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.
— Rod Serling
There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.
— Rod Serling
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.
— Rod Serling
He's not a piece of meat you can job off the market by the pound. because, if you do,maish, if you do, you'll rot in hell.
— Rod Serling
Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.
— Rod Serling
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
— Rod Serling
I've written all that I've wanted to write to date.
— Rod Serling
If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.
— Rod Serling
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.
— Rod Serling
I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped.
— Rod Serling
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.
— Rod Serling
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
— Rod Serling
Bias and prejudice make me angry ... more than anything.
— Rod Serling
I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.
— Rod Serling
Rod Serling once observed, The greatest fear of all is fear of the unknown, which you can't share with others.
— Guillermo Del Toro
I don't have close relationships with agents. They're friends, but they're not confidants.
— Rod Serling
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.
— Rod Serling
Trying to be the best at anything carries its own special risks, in or out of the Twilight Zone.
— Rod Serling
If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.
— Rod Serling
You gotta BELIEVE, Bolie!
— Rod Serling
The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.
— Rod Serling
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.
— Rod Serling
Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything.
— Rod Serling
I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful.
— Rod Serling
Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.
— Rod Serling
I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.
— Rod Serling
I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated.
— Rod Serling
You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.
— Rod Serling
I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.
— Rod Serling
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
— Rod Serling