Bob Balaban Quotes

When television came out, there was concern it would kill radio.

TV has changed everything.

I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.

Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore.

I don't really follow television so much, but in the old days there was a certain way TV was, and it wasn't really like cinema. I don't know how many ways it was different or the same, but it was not quite like cinema. Now, cinema can happen on television.

Broadcasting's best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part of tomorrow's technological world.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture.

Television is such a mediocre medium.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.

TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.