Edgar Allan Poe In Television And Film
American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe has had significant influence in television and film. Many are adaptations of Poe's work, others merely reference it.
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“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091845)
“Science! true daughter of old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poets heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love theeor how deem thee wise
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering,”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:”
—Arthur William Edgar OShaughnessy (18441881)
“The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustained ... the science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotles treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“TRUE!nervousvery, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.”
—Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)
“A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)