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KAZUMI TAKAGI |
Executive director, Mainichi Broadcasting System |
| In the case ... of the videocassette
industry ... there is not a country in the world with prior experience. This is a field in
which Japan must carve out its own precedents. This is the first case in which Japan must
gauge the development in such a manner. My conviction is that this is an industry in which
Japan will set the precedents. |
• First Vidca Conference, Cannes, 19-23 April 1971 |
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Sir STEPHEN TALLENTS |
Sir Stephen George Tallents
1884-1958; Secretary of the Empire Marketing Board 1926-1933;
Public Relations Officer, General Post Office 1933-1935; BBC Controller of Public Relations 1935-40,
Overseas Services, 1940-41 |
| 1 'A foot of film is worth a dollar of trade,' say the Americans, who, enjoying special
advantages, have turned every cinema in the world into the equivalent of an American consulate. |
• The Projection of Britain, 1932 |
2 We must master the art of national projection and must set ourselves to throw a
fitting presentation of England upon the world’s screen. |
• The Projection of Britain, 1932 |
3 Any research that might be undertaken should be so controlled as to secure that it
never developed from a servant into a master, to the detriment of the essential qualities of good
broadcasting—a responsible but sensitive outlook and a readiness to experiment. |
• Memorandum to the BBC General Advisory Council, January 1936
See also Robert Silvey |
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IAN TAYLOR |
1945- ; British Minister for Science and Technology |
| Digital TV will bring an era of high
value, interactive multimedia services, bringing substantial benefits to the UK economy.
Consumers will be able to call down special-interest programmes, take out electronic
season tickets to follow their home football team, conduct home shopping, even alter
camera angles to track a favourite star. |
• December 1996 |
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Lord NORMAN TEBBIT |
1931- ; British Films Minister, July 1979-January 1981 |
| The Chancellor [of the Exchequer] will have more to do with the success or failure
of the film industry in the future than I will as the minister responsible. |
• May 1980 |
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ALFRED Lord TENNYSON |
1850-1896; British Poet Laureate |
| Thunderless lightnings striking under sea. |
• of submarine telephone cables |
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Baroness MARGARET THATCHER |
1925- ; British Prime Minister, 1979-1991 |
| 1 There’s a great industry in
other people’s pleasure. We must expect a lot more of our jobs will come from the
service industries—from the Macdonald’s and Wimpy’s, which employ a lot of
people, and from the kind of Disneyland they are starting at Corby. Leisure is a big industry. |
• quoted in Daily Mirror under the heading ‘Maggie’s Mickie
[sic] Mouse job plans’, 26 August 1983; taken from an interview in The Director,
August 1983. Corby never had a ‘Disneyland’ but Britain had lots of MacJobs
after Thatcher |
| 2 Here is Mr Murdoch, who gives us Sky News, the only unbiased news in the UK. |
• introducing the arriving Murdoch to a departing visitor at 10 Downing Street, 29 October
1990. Murdoch was visiting the prime minister to arrange a merger of his failing Sky Television with the
even more failing British Satellite Broadcasting. Quoted in The Observer, 24 August 2003
See also  Michael Grade, Rupert Murdoch
 Thatcher's role in satellite television |
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HELMUT THOMA |
1939- ; Managing director, RTL, Germany 1991-1995 |
| It's like going into a restaurant, having the chef point to the ingredients and saying:
'Here they are, now cook the meal yourself.' Is that what audiences want? TV audiences want to stay passive. |
• On interactive media; 1995 |
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Lord ROY THOMSON of Fleet |
1894-1977; Canadian-born newspaper and media proprietor |
| It's just like having a licence to print your own money. |
• On the early effects of being granted a UK licence for Scottish Television,
part of the ITV network, c1958. cit Russell Braddon: Roy Thomson of Fleet Street |
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU |
1817-1862; American writer |
| We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but
Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate. |
• Walden, 1854 |
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Dame SYBIL THORNDIKE |
1882-1976; British actress |
| The talkie tears away the last shreds of phantasy and only leaves cut and dried fact. |
• Picturegoer, November 1929 |
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RANDALL TOBIAS |
1942- ; Vice Chairman, AT&T 1986-1993 |
| If we had similar progress in
automotive technology [to that in computerisation], today you could buy a Lexus for about
$2. It would travel at the speed of sound and go about 600 miles on a thimble of gas. |
• cit. John Naisbitt: Global Paradox |
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Sir HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE |
1853-1917; British actor |
| Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want. |
• response to request for a gramophone testimonial |
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FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT |
1932-1984; French film director, occasional actor |
1 Jean-Luc Godard n'est pas seul à filmer comme il respire, mais c'est lui qui
respire le mieux. Il est rapide comme Rosselini, malicieux comme Sacha Guitry, musical comme Orson Welles,
simple comme Pagnol, blessé comme Nicholas Ray, efficace comme Hitchcock, profond, profond, profond comme
Ingmar Bergman et insolent comme personne. ... Jean-Luc Godard deviendra-t-il plus populaire que le Pape,
donc juste un peu moins que les Beatles? C'est possible. ...
Plus prosaïquement, je puis dire enfin que je suis devenu coproducteur du treizième film
de Jean-Luc Godard parce que j'ai observé que les gens qui ont investi dans ses douze précédents
chefs-d'œuvres sont tous devenus riches.
[Jean-Luc Godard isn't the only one who films the way he beathes, but he breathes the best. Quick like
Rosselini, wicked like Sacha Guitry, musical like Orson Welles, simple like Pagnol, wounded like Nicholas
Ray, efficiently like Hitchcock, deep, deep, deep like Ingmar Bergman and insolent like no one else. ...
Could Jean-Luc Godard become more popular than the Pope, even just slightly less than the Beatles? It's
possible. ...
More prosaically I can say in conclusion that I became the co-producer of Jean-Luc Godard's
13th film because I noticed that the people who invested in his 12 previous masterpieces have all become rich.] |
• L'Avant-Scène (70), May 1967, about 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle |
2 Je tourne autour de la question
qui me tourmente depuis trente ans: le cinéma est-il plus important que la vie?
[I keep going round the question that has troubled me for 30 years: is the cinema more
important than life?] |
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3 I would not like to see a film for the first time on video or the
television. One first sees a film in the cinema. Cinema and video—it is effectively
the difference between a book one reads and a book one consults.
For me as a cinéphile, video overturns my life. Take Lubitch's Design
for Living as an example. Before, if it was on somewhere, I used to go, knowing I
would have to wait maybe two years before being able to see it again. Now I may see it
three times in the same week.
To have a film on video gives me a much more intimate knowledge of it.
As a cinéphile, I am a video fan. |
• used as a blurb for a series of French video releases of
classic movies, 1992 |
| 4 All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood
or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They’re obliged to overstate their own importance. |
• letter, 8 January 1981 |
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DOUGLAS TRUMBULL |
1942- ; US film director and technologist |
| 1 The people running the movie business
are really deal-makers, packagers, agents who are afraid of technology. |
• interview, Variety, 5 August 1991 |
| 2 People will pay a dollar a minute for
a [theme park] ride, which is equivalent to people paying $180 to see a feature film.
Theme parks have been amazing cash machines for Universal and Disney. |
• interview, Variety, 5 August 1991 |
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MICHAEL TUCHNER |
1934- ; German-born British film director |
| This place [Hollywood] is tricky
because it operates with optimism. If you get a ‘yes’ it means
‘maybe’; if you get a ‘maybe’ I’m afraid it tends to mean
‘no’; and if you get a ‘no’ you might as well pack up and go home. |
• March 1982 |
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TED TURNER |
1938- ; US television enterpreneur |
| I don’t really like television,
if you want to know the honest truth. I think the more time you spend in conversation and
playing bridge and playing golf and chatting with your children or reading a good book the
better off you are. But since we have television with us—and since not
everyone’s going to read a book or converse with their children—I might as well be in it. |
• MacTaggart Lecture, Edinburgh Television Festival, September 1982 |
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