Ted Sarandos Quotes

I think the relationship between cable and satellite and telco pay TV service providers and the content industry is a very, very solid one.

The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone down. But we've seen kind of the horizontal benefit of this. And it remains a great, great promotion engine.

We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

There's a real difference now in what you can get out of film and the rise of digital platforms.

I don't think Apple has to own a content business.

I think the networks, in general, have to evaluate what's happening around them. I'm sure they're scared about a lot of things: Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, and all these places that allow people to watch shows in chunks.

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.

I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.

The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit.

The futures of Crackle and Hulu and so forth become more and more important as we connect to more and more devices. We need our content to make our services as attractive as Apple's or Amazon's or Microsoft's. We're in a brave new world of fierce competition.

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!

I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.

We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

The TV Everywhere structure is good for all cable, satellite, and telephone distributors. It's good for all networks. It's good for studios that sell to networks, so it's basically good for everybody on the business side.

The whole industry is changing because so many people watch things on DVR, and they watch things on other platforms, and I think everybody is kind of scratching their heads about how this is going to play out.

Television is growing. It is a huge market for great content.

It's not enough just to put great television shows out anymore.

Television is obviously changing; the way we consume media is changing, so I think it's natural that we are going to try different styles.

We're in this really different world of television where everybody is binge watching, and it almost doesn't matter where you're airing.

To me, mass media is when you are able to use a platform to reach an audience on a large, global scale, and I think YouTube has certainly achieved that and is still finding ways to bring a wider range of content to its audience.

I think I still get something from the original broadcaster but I'm certainly not aware of any Netflix van driving to my house and unloading a load of cash into my front yard.

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.

At Netflix, we realized that we weren't in business with the Toshibas and the Sonys of the world. We were in business with the guy sitting at home trying to find a DVD to watch. If we had the courage to focus on him, everyone - movie studios, electronics companies, Netflix itself - won.