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" There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want. "
Ted Sarandos
Great
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Deep
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" The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve. "
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" 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! "
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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. "
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" I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports. "
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" Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way. "
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You
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" 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 longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us. "
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Success
" David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix. "
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Incredibly
Been
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" We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia. "
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Star
World
Success
" There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more. "
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TV
Too Much
Much
" I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it. "
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Deep
Respect
Television
" 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. "
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Netflix
World
Way
" When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for. "
Ted Sarandos
Money
Investment
Successful
" 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. "
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Business
Waiting
You
" 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. "
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People
Want
Think
" 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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Will
Ahead
Day
" 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
" I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians. "
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Think
You
See
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" I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema. "
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Theater
" 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. "
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You
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Think
Anything
Brings
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Netflix
Future
Going
" 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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You
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Adam
Brand
Movie
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