Rod Serling
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"Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling" was an American people/American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his Science fiction on television/science fiction Anthology series/anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)/The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen, and helped form television industry standards. He was known as the "angry young man" of Hollywood, clashing with television executives and sponsors over a wide range of issues including censorship, racism, and war.

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The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices . . . . And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

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Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

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Portrait of a losing side, proof positive that you can't outpunch machinery. Proof also of something else: that no matter what the future brings, man's capacity to rise to the occasion will remain unaltered. His potential for tenacity and optimism continues, as always, to outfight and outlive any and all changes made by his society.

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I grew up in a single family household and when you decide to go to the wall on your first project you really want to go with material that you're passionate about and I think that is one of the reasons I felt so compelled to make this film.

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It 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.

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Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

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I kept waiting for Rod Steiger to come out of the closet because I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone. ... The Twilight Zone.

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There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

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