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. Rod Serling More Quotes by Rod Serling More Quotes From 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 toms stood-up knows If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all. Rod Serling ifs writing If the producer doesn't like you, consequently he reads the script with a very negative view. But I wouldn't preoccupy myself with that, I don't give a damn. You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and whatall. Rod Serling damn-you dwarves views Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure. Rod Serling my-daughter pleasure daughter 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 quality long directors I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything. Rod Serling awards winning thinking Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors' item in its own way - not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, and suspends in time and space, a frozen moment of a nightmare. Rod Serling space special art 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. Rod Serling missing directors television Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time. Rod Serling british bombs space 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 counting hell pages Seeing does not always believe. Rod Serling always-believe doe believe 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. Rod Serling eight self thinking 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. Rod Serling differences essence expression 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 impatient packages together I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease. Rod Serling disease summer thinking I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated. Rod Serling cop want believe You know, writer can write about the Foreign Legion without ever having been in the Foreign Legion, but that doesn't necessarily mean that what he's written doesn't necessarily reflect the nature of him as an individual - or her. Using the male gender because it's me speaking. I don't mean to put down the female. Rod Serling males writing mean (on being born on Christmas Day, 1924) I was a Christmas present that was delivered unwrapped. Rod Serling twilight-zone christmas-present 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.' Rod Serling march writing men Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible. Rod Serling fantasy impossible fiction
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