Rod Serling: Writing to please an audience

GITS reader David A sent me a link to an amazing set of videos, a sit-down conversation with TV and screenwriter Rod Serling. Most well-known for the long-running TV anthology series “The Twilight Zone” (148 episodes, 1959–1964), has over 70 writing credits including the screenplays for movies such as Seven Days in May and the original Planet of the Apes.

This week and next, we’ll feature Serling’s thoughts on writing each day with short (1–2 minute) interview excerpts. Today Serling ruminates on the thought: Writing to please an audience:

“Isn’t art a shared experience? Isn’t the excellence of art dependent on a reaction from the outside to someone’s work?”

Thanks again to David for finding these videos.

[Originally posted February 9, 2010]