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 SerlingI 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.
Rod SerlingWhy do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.
Rod SerlingIt 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 SerlingYou 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