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Rod Serling, in “The Mike Wallace Interview” (1959), talking about his television play The Velvet Alley:
RS: . . . what I tried to suggest dramatically was that when you get into the big money particularly in the kind of detonating, exciting, explosive, overnight way that our industry permits, there are certain blandishments that a guy can succumb to and many do.
MW: Such as?
RS: A preoccupation with status, with the symbols of status, with the heated swimming pool that’s ten feet longer than the neighbors’, with the big car, with the concern about billing, all these things, in a sense rather minute things, really, in context, but that become disproportionately large in a guy’s mind.
MW: And because those become so large, what becomes small?
RS: I think, probably the really valuable things, and I know this sounds corny and sort of buckwheatish to say that things like having a family, being concerned with raising children, being concerned with where they go to school, being concerned with a good marital relationship – all these things, I think, are of the essence.