Umberto Eco Quotes

When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and 'Oh my gosh - look what it's doing!'

When television began, it modeled itself after radio. Many early television programs were radio programs first. 'My Favorite Wife,' 'The Jack Benny Show,' 'Burns and Allen,' 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'

I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

Everybody in America was talking about TV early in 1949, though comparatively few Americans owned a set of their own.

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.

I have no problem with television as a genre.

NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.

I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one.

I think television's amazing, and I'm going to do more of it. I love it. I think it's a great place to be, but I'm still going to keep doing movies too.

I can't imagine seeing Batman in black and white. It was such a colourful TV series. I know. I'm ancient. It wasn't abnormal to be without a television in those days. People who had colour were special.

I think the great thing about a television set is that it can be turned on and off, and you don't have to watch it if you think it's going to be something that you're not going to like or learn from.

I do love TV as a medium.

I love TV and am happy doing TV shows.

I came up during the formative years of TV.

In Pakistan, our medium is the small screen. We don't make many films, and hardly have theaters. A majority of people seek entertainment while sitting at home and TV gives it to them, so we excel on that part.

I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.

I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn't really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn't a TV person.

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

It was a period when live TV was just starting and getting popular and they took it seriously too. Not so much like TV now. They did Hemingway and Faulkner - and they’re all wonderful artists and it just was very creative at that time.

We've been playing a lot with television. We have some shows set up and then some new shows that are about to be set up. That's gonna be kind of a fun thing for us as producers.

I have no idea what's going on in television because I really don't look at it.

I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.