Television and Cinema Verities #103

"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. In the fifties, a lot of this was sucked in just by breathing the air. I was able to do these movies that audience picked up on, and I began to get letters from young people who seemed to know what I was talking about."

- Joseph Stefano (1922 - 2006) discusses The Outer Limits (1963 - 1965).