Frans van Houten Quotes

Television is not a gimmick.

If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television.

I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

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!'

Television is just another appliance–it's a toaster with pictures.

TV is one of the biggest mediums, and over time, it will get bigger.

I came up during the formative years of TV.

There used to be a huge snobbism between the film industry and the television industry. I produced and acted in my first - well way back - but the first thing that I produced and acted in was Sarah, Plan and Tall. And the only place to go at the time for really quality television was Hallmark Hall of Fame. And think how much television has changed since then.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

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 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.

TV is just an incredible media.

We were pushing the boundaries a bit of Saturday morning telly and trying new things.

TV is something that I've been interested in for a while. It's a new experience, but I'm excited about it.

I have always been wanting to do TV as it is a huge medium and in India we are making such amazing shows.

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

I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.

I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television.

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.