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" Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night's episode. "

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" '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. "

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" We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China. "

" 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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" 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. "

" In the first week of release, 'Beasts Of No Nation' was the most watched movie on Netflix, in every country we operate in. "

" 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. "

" 'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal. "

" 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. "

" Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film. "

" You need to get in studio; we're excited about the Pay 1 opportunity with Disney because those movies are not just movies. They're amazing family content that get flexed over and over again, forms great loyalty with our subscribers, and it's a real trust brand for parents as well. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports. "

" 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. "

" I don't think on-demand brings anything extra to sports. "

" 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. "

" The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along. "

" The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us. "

" 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. "

" The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global. "

" We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it. "

" Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream. "

" The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access. "

" There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want. "

" The future of how the networks and studios deal with Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video is certainly going to determine their future. "

" 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. "

" The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year. "

" '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. "

" 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. "