- Rod Serling: I was traumatized into writing by war events. By going through a war in a combat situation and feeling the desperate need for some sort of therapy to get it out of my gut; to write it down. This is the way it began for me.
- Rod Serling: When cutting my writing teeth, I needed the slower pace of a small town but this is where I have to be now.
- Self - Director: Well, we were working in a new medium. And we were the old days. I mean, there wasn't any history. there was a certain arrogance that we had, that and just felt that we could do anything. We were all quite young and none of us, to the best of my knowledge really had a background in film. We came out f the theater and in my particular case, we came out of nowhere.
- Rod Serling: If you're on top, you're the target. You're the man with the ball and if you get a hundred grand a year, you gotta earn it. You gotta pay for success as well as achieve it.
- Self - Actor: He was so in touch of what happened in the world and what was right and what was wrong. Great sense of morality.
- Self - Daughter of Rod Serling: I think he was expressing himself, he was expressing a lot of his fears, a lot of his worries. Just a lot about himself. A wish to go back in time where things were a lot easier, quieter and calmer, the Tom sawyer type of place. So Writing was probably to him some sort of therapy, it really helped him work out a lot of unresolved pain that he might have had.
- Rod Serling: I found I could sell everything I had.. and I did. Like a hungry kid left alone in a candy store, I just grabbed it. A lot of what I sold, should have stayed in the trunk.