Rod Serling

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1924 age 0

   Born

2. 1968 age 44

   CreditPlanet of the Apesscreenwriter

3. 1975 age 50

   Died

• JGJerry Goldsmith2 titles
• JWJames Whitmore1 title
• BHBernard Herrmann1 title
• FSFelix Silla1 title
• MWMichael Wilson1 title
• CHCharlton Heston1 title
• BCBilly Curtis1 title
• FWFranz Waxman1 title
• NBNorman Burton1 title
• LRLeonard Rosenman1 title

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  Photo:CBS Television via the Bureau of Industrial Service. During the 1950s and 1960s, television networks, program sponsors and studios often used either advertising or public relations agencies to distribute publicity materials. The Bureau was a division of ad agency Young & Rubicam.Public domain

• There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwald, the Auschwitzes – all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth.

  Rod Serling, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It is said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, and fantasy is the impossible made probable.

  Rod Serling, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

  Rod Serling, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [T]he ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

  Rod Serling, CC BY-SA 4.0