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" We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China. "
Ted Sarandos
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream. "
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" The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year. "
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" Being able to compete for consumers' attention and dollars over the preciousness of access is a thing of the past. Everyone is using the Internet to globally market a product. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options. "
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Want
" Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand. "
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" 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. "
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Events
Sports
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" 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. "
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Start
Think
" The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us. "
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People
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" 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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" A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies. "
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Projects
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" 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. "
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Present
You
Stars
" Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want. "
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Movies
Why
Want
" 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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Will
" 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. "
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Money
" I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema. "
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Experience
Cinema
Theater
" 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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Travel
" There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more. "
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TV
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" 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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" 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. "
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People
" 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. "
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Night
Doing
Friday
" I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports. "
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