Monday, July 14, 2014

Television and Cinema Verities



“I think it failed in terms of its consistency. It was very good some weeks, quite bad other weeks. But this, I think, is pretty much the track record of most television, by virtue of its desperate overexposure and the brevity of time allotted to us to produce something that is qualitative. But overall I would say that it was a creative series.  We did much more creating than we did imitating.”

- Rod Serling discusses The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1964) and its legacy.

No comments:

Post a Comment

20 Years/Top 10 JKM Posts #6: (And 50 Years Ago!) Jaws (1975)

A modern film classic now half-a-century old,  Jaws   (1975) derives much of its terror from a directorial approach that might be termed ...