I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.
Rod SerlingAccording to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is manโs prerogative - and womanโs - to create their own particular and private hell.
Rod SerlingPeople are put down in television now, not because they're not qualitative, not because they're not talented - but because there's no room for them, and worse than that, there's nowhere they can find exposure. Their own good talent may die of mourning, just for want of having somebody read what they've written. I don't presume to say how we can best provide platforms for new writers to get read. I don't know. But therein lies the major problem.
Rod SerlingWe're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.
Rod SerlingIn 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.
Rod Serling