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" '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
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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. "
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Some
" 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
" 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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World
Success
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
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Want
Me
" 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
" 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
" Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film. "
Ted Sarandos
Hidden
Film
Dragon
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Collaboration
Light
Love
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Trust
You
Family
" Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want. "
Ted Sarandos
Movies
Why
Want
" '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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Experience
Dark
Home
" I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options. "
Ted Sarandos
Choice
Options
Want
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Long
Movies
You
" 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
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Movies
Trying
Serve
" 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
" There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more. "
Ted Sarandos
TV
Too Much
Much
" 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
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Beginning
Thinking
Travel
" I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports. "
Ted Sarandos
Live
Know
Than
" I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema. "
Ted Sarandos
Experience
Cinema
Theater
" 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
Know
Writing
" 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. "
Ted Sarandos
Best Way
Way
Through
" 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
" 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
" I don't think on-demand brings anything extra to sports. "
Ted Sarandos
Think
Anything
Brings
" 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