Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Library
You
Way
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Building
Room
Cinema
" 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
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Work
Start
Think
" When we show you all these various pieces of content on the site, how frequently do you take the one that we present? And of the one you took, how frequently do you completely watch the whole series? And do you rate it, one to five stars? So if we presented it to you, and you watched it, and you rated it, that's a big win. "
Ted Sarandos
Present
You
Stars
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Experience
Amazing
Seeing
" I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it. "
Ted Sarandos
Deep
Respect
Television
" The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us. "
Ted Sarandos
People
Stay
Success
" I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians. "
Ted Sarandos
Think
You
See
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Talent
Work
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. "
Ted Sarandos
Will
Ahead
Day
" I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options. "
Ted Sarandos
Choice
Options
Want
" I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema. "
Ted Sarandos
Experience
Cinema
Theater
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Money
Numbers
Brand
" Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand. "
Ted Sarandos
Adam
Brand
Movie
" 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
" What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make? "
Ted Sarandos
People
Get
What If
" We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand. "
Ted Sarandos
Cable
Grid
HBO
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Think
Three
World
" 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
" 'Walking Dead' has done great on Netflix, but to pay for the full output deal just to get 'Walking Dead' didn't make sense. "
Ted Sarandos
Walking
Dead
Done
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Movies
More
You
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
American
Surprise
Politics
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Real
Winning
World
" We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China. "
Ted Sarandos
Open
Anxious
Doing
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Star
World
Success
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Netflix
Future
Going
" 'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal. "
Ted Sarandos
Loved
Been
Some
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Night
Doing
Friday
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Important
Year
Think
" 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