Television and Cinema Verities #72

"What excited me was that there wasn't anything scary on television, and I was a Val Lewton fan who had this sense of scary movies that just chill you and sometimes you don't know why. I also felt that if I went for CBS, and said I'd like to do a drama about the bullshit going on in the CIA, they would say thank you, we'll call you. But if I made a science fiction film, nobody would notice. I got to do great stories about the evil in the world...But the censors never said a word."

- Joe Stefano, of The Outer Limits (1963 - 1964) discusses his initial participation in the science fiction anthology with Richard Allen, Chair of Cinema Studies, April 25, 2003.