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" 'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal. "
Ted Sarandos
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" 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. "
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" The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows. "
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" In the first week of release, 'Beasts Of No Nation' was the most watched movie on Netflix, in every country we operate in. "
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" The best way to really make the VPN issue a completely nonissue is through global licensing that we are continuing to pursue with our partners. "
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" There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland. "
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Experience
Amazing
Seeing
" 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. "
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" I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians. "
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" Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand. "
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Brand
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" A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies. "
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Our
" We're one of the largest employers in Canada for animation executives, and there is - I think something on the magnitude of $140 million a year be important to the Canadian economy producing animation for Netflix. "
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Year
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" To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures. "
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Building
Room
Cinema
" I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports. "
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Live
Know
Than
" When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have. "
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Beginning
Thinking
Travel
" The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year. "
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Movies
Studio
Deal
" What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't. "
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Matters
Want
Me
" Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film. "
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Hidden
Film
Dragon
" Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters. "
Ted Sarandos
People
Want
Think
" The U.K. has been very progressive about on-demand, and the iPlayer has been a great invention. It has trained a generation of viewers to expect on-demand - unfortunately, it trains them to expect free! "
Ted Sarandos
Free
Generation
Great
" The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.' "
Ted Sarandos
Commitment
Cards
Attention
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Broken
Pilot
Money
" 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. "
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Experience
Dark
Home
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Netflix
World
Way
" The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us. "
Ted Sarandos
People
Stay
Success
" What we are going to do is continue to grow our content spend on original programming, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of our total spending, because it's been working. It's been helping grow the brand; and more importantly, it's been driving viewing hours relative to how else we would spend the money. "
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Money
Numbers
Brand
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Always
Love
Life
" '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. "
Ted Sarandos
See
Tiger
Time
" Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought. "
Ted Sarandos
Men
Cards
People
" We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand. "
Ted Sarandos
Cable
Grid
HBO
" Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour. "
Ted Sarandos
Down
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Writing
" 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. "
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