Stirling Silliphant Quotes

Stirling Dale Silliphant was an American screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his screenplay for In the Heat of the Night, for which he won an Academy Award in 1967, and for creating the television series Naked City, Perry Mason, and Route 66. Other features as screenwriter include the Irwin Allen productions The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. January 1918 – 26. April 1996
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Stirling Silliphant Quotes

“You have to be taught to leave us alone. Leave us alone.”

David Zellaby (Martin Stephens), Village of the Damned (speaking to his uncle about himself and the other alien children) (1960).

“If you did not suffer from emotions, from feelings, you could be as powerful as we are.”

David Zellaby (Martin Stephens), Village of the Damned, (speaking to his father) (1960)

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