An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it’s uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general – no, that’s much more the exception than the rule.

— Rod Serling

Rod Serling Quotes

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

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it’ll sound good when an actor’s saying it.

— 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

I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.

— Rod Serling

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

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

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.

— Rod Serling

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

Infinitely more taboos, on television.

— 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

I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I’ve ever done.

— Rod Serling

I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn’t cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.

— 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 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 don’t have close relationships with agents. They’re friends, but they’re not confidants.

— Rod Serling

The good agent probably is not the reader, he’s just the guy who can put together a deal.

— 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

Personally, my daughter’s wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure.

— Rod Serling

You can become much more independent, much more courageous with a bank account. And also, much more independent and self-reliant when you know you have money behind you.

— 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
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