Rod Serling Quotes

I Don't Believe In Reincarnation. That's A Cop-out. . . . I Anticipate Death Will Be A Totally Unconscious Void In Which You Float Through Eternity With No Particular Consciousness Of Anything.

I Miss The Comraderie Of Live Television - The Fact That You Were On The Set, You Worked Closely With The Director And The Cast, That I Miss. But, No, I'm Happy, I'm Happy Doing Film.

I Think I Would Like To Be In Victorian Times. Small Town. Bandstands. Summer. That Kind Of Thing. Without Disease.

The Good Agent Probably Is Not The Reader, He's Just The Guy Who Can Put Together A Deal.

I Find Dictating In The Mass Media Particularly Good Because You're Writing For Voice Anyway; You're Writing For People To Say A Line And, Consequently, Saying A Line Through A Machine Is Quite A Valid Test For The Validity Of What You're Saying.

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.

I Would Guess That Ray Bradbury Would Be Equally Resentful Of What They Did With Illustrated Man, Which, You Know, Took A Central Idea Thesis Of His And Pissed All Over It - Made It Into One Of The Worst Movies Ever Made.

I Don't Think It's Man's Function To Write. I Don't Think It's A Normal Thing Like Teeth-brushing And Going To The Bathroom. It's A Supered Position On The Animal.

The Major Difference Frequently Is In Time. The Motion Picture, For Example, Gives You Considerably More Freedom Of Expression Than Does The Confined Thirty-minute Television Show. But In Essence, They're Not That Dissimilar.

When I First Went Into Freelancing, I Think There Was A Period Of About Eight Months When Nothing Happened. Everything That I Wrote Crumbled Up, And Then It Became A Self-destructive Thing - When You Begin To Doubt Yourself, When Doubt Turns Into - It's Sort Of Like Impotence. Once Impotent, You're Forever Impotent. Because You're Always Worried About Being Impotent.

I Don't Have Close Relationships With Agents. They're Friends, But They're Not Confidants.

Most Shows, Buying Shows, Have A Standard Fee For The First Shot Of The Writer And If You Have A Very Militant Agent, I Suppose He Might Jack It Up Four Percent Or Something. But In Essence, You Sell For What Is The Going Rate.