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• 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.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, People, Good Questions

  "Fictional character: Narrator". "The Twilight Zone/ The After Hours", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he's quite right. I'm not going to delve into controversy. Somebody asked me the other day if this means that I'm going to be a meek conformist, and my answer is no. I'm just acting the role of a tired non-conformist.

  Rod Serling

  Tired, Mean, Thinking

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• 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.

  Rod Serling

  Twilight, Science, Men

  The Twilight Zone (television series), opening narration (1963)

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• 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.

  Rod Serling

  Stars, Twilight, Space

  Rod Serling (1990). “The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories”, TV Books Incorporated

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• Justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar.

  Rod Serling

  Years, Justice, Calendars

  "Fictional character: Narrator". TV Series "The Twilight Zone" ("Execution", 1960), www.imdb.com. 1959–1964.

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• Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was more carnival-like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form.

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  Stars, Fiction, Television

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• Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.

  Rod Serling

  Hollywood, Grapefruit, Places To Live

  Rod Serling's letter to his wife, as quoted in TV Series "American Masters" ("Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval", November 29, 1995), (1985 - ).

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• Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.

  Rod Serling

  Bias And Prejudice, Make Me Angry, Prejudice

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• All the Dachaus must remain standing.

  Rod Serling

  Buchenwald, Dachau, Twilight Zone

  "The Twilight Zone (Deaths-Head Revisited)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. November 10, 1961.

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• If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Simple, Ordinary Days

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• Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.

  Rod Serling

  Creativity, Abundance, Form

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• 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.

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  Writing, Successful, Years

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• I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Should, Feels

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• You must always assume that the relationship between writer and producer is that of adversaries - however you slice it. They may be your dearest friends, and they'll invite you to dinner, but when all the smoke clears and the ozone lifts, your enemy is the producer, that's the guy you're competing with, and you have to battle him, just as if you were an adversary.

  Rod Serling

  Ozone, Guy, Enemy

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• If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

  Rod Serling

  Magic, Sorcery, Quests

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• Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In live television, you wrote much more vertically. You had to probe people because you didn't have money or sets or any of the physical dimensions that film will allow you. So you generally probed people a little bit more. Film writing is much more horizontal. You can insert anything you want: meadows, battlefields, the Taj Mahal, a cast of thousands. But essentially, writing a story is writing a story.

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  Writing, Differences, People

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• You're looking at a species of flimsy little two-legged animals with extremely small heads whose name is Man...Very tiny undeveloped brain; comes from primitive planet named Earth. Calls himself 'Samuel Conrad'. And he will remain here in his cage with the running water and the electricity and the central heat- as long as he lives. Samuel Conrad has found the Twilight Zone.

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  Running, Twilight, Animal

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• I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.

  Rod Serling

  Essence, Credit, Scripts

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• 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

  Writing, Successful, Zing

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• 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.

  Rod Serling

  Character, Unique, Cameras

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• It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

  Rod Serling

  Funny, Dance, Humor

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

  Rod Serling

  Simple, Solitude

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• In terms of screenwriting adaptations it's trying to cut out stuff that's extraneous, without doing damage to the original piece, because you owe a debt of some respect to the original author. That's why it was bought.

  Rod Serling

  Cutting, Trying, Pieces

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• I'm an affluent screenwriter and all that - I'm a known screenwriter, but I'm not in the fraternity of the very, very major people. I would say a guy like Ernie Lehman, William Goldman, and a few others are quite a cut above.

  Rod Serling

  Cutting, People, Guy

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