Michael Kelly Quotes

I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.

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 know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

I remember one of my writers on 'Weeds' got a new apartment and didn't get cable or a dish. He just hooked his computer up to the TV. I was like, 'This is it. This is how it's happening.'

I don't even think in the future, pay-per-view is going to exist. You see Netflix and Amazon and what they're doing, and that's a model I think is going to grow and grow.

Streaming services are very important.

Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

Now it's all about the word of mouth, and watching a series on Netflix. That's the way people actually consume this stuff now, instead of waiting for a DVD release you're not really sure you want to buy. And I think it's fantastic, because then I can watch the shows that I missed, over a weekend. I love doing that.

I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.

My children do not know what it's like to flip around channels. They either go to Netflix, Apple TV, or they pull up YouTube, and they can watch their shows.

People are really into on-demand consumption. I watch everything myself on demand.

We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix.

We firmly believe the future of television is online, and Hulu has recognized the value of quality long-form series.

I am here to tell you, TV is not dead. Rather, it is constantly evolving as we are. My view is that we are in the next Golden Age of content. If AOL, Google, Netflix, Amazon, and Yahoo felt TV was dying, they would not be so eager to play in our sandbox. It is, after all, TV content that's driving their business.

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

I used to watch TV in the days that I was on TV. But in that time, streaming has come along. So I can honestly say, I have no idea what's on real-time TV.

Everyone is struggling to compete with how people consume television these days.

I choose YouTube over telly.

You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.

So many people are are using the Internet now to watch movies and TV shows online.

Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.

I don't have a television. All I have is Netflix and Apple TV and Hulu.

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.