Ideally, it would be great if you could watch a network and not understand what the networks' politics are, the programming on Netflix is an aggregation of the politics of a lot of storytellers and creators... It's not an aggregation of my politics or Reed's [ Hastings, Netflix's CEO ] politics.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.

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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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When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year. by Ted Sarandos

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

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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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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.

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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going... by Ted Sarandos

I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

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