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" Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand. "
Adam
Brand
Movie
" A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies. "
Production
Projects
Our
" Being able to compete for consumers' attention and dollars over the preciousness of access is a thing of the past. Everyone is using the Internet to globally market a product. "
Product
Past
Over
" 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' is not a direct-to-video, low-budget sequel: it's a big film. And it'd be fantastic to have the opportunity to see it on the IMAX screens at the same time, and IMAX has made arrangements with us for that to happen. "
See
Tiger
Time
" David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix. "
Incredibly
Been
Netflix
" I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent. "
Always
Love
Life
" I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports. "
Live
Know
Than
" I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet. "
Will
Ahead
Day
" I don't think on-demand brings anything extra to sports. "
Think
Anything
Brings
" I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options. "
Choice
Options
Want
" I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work. "
Talent
Work
Think
" If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home. "
Experience
Dark
Home
" I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it. "
Deep
Respect
Television
" I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema. "
Experience
Cinema
Theater
" In the first week of release, 'Beasts Of No Nation' was the most watched movie on Netflix, in every country we operate in. "
Week
Nation
Country
" I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one. "
Loved
Someone
Three
" I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix. "
Think
Great
Always
" I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly. "
Work
Start
Think
" I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world. "
Think
Three
World
" I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate. "
Events
Sports
Award
" I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians. "
Think
You
See
" It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose. "
Long
Movies
You
" 'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal. "
Loved
Been
Some
" More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will. "
More
Sell
Will
" Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country. "
Movies
More
You
" Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream. "
Interesting
Always
Netflix
" Netflix is distributed in 50 countries around the world. It's an incredibly affordable, well-distributed product that gives anyone with access to the Internet and a screen access to content in a very affordable way. "
Netflix
World
Way
" Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series. "
Broken
Pilot
Money
" On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you're getting out; that's what you're doing. If you don't want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix. "
Night
Doing
Friday
" 'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched. "
Orange
Show
Far
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