Ted Sarandos Quotes

Owning content and original content has been our lifeblood - we've never been a suite of brands that's been reliant on a movie library or on rented series from other networks.

HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.

People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame.

I flood the Internet with what I think is quality content. That's why I did things like giving out a song every 100,000 Twitter followers because I am just looking for ways to get my fans to hear all this music without over saturating things.

If you wanna compete, you've got to get into the original content game.

Both YouKu and Tudou do original content for a number of years, and we position it based on our difference in terms of age demographic. And so the content itself is really more suitable for the brand itself.

We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.

HBO is the original subscription video-on-demand company. We were repurposing first-run movies, and then we added original programming.

I believe in content, and I go accordingly.

With platforms like Netflix, things are evolving as they are making content-driven films and series.

I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.

Even if you are a superstar, you have to give your audience some content. Because there is so much good content out there that people consume today. To sustain this, you have to nurture good content and writers.

You can have whatever platform you want, but without great content, you don't have anything.

Despite our hard work and the number of hours we put in, content is the hero of every show.

We're a content company. And if we create the best content, every distributor will want what we have.

It’s been a dream to work with Netflix because they don’t have any pressure from advertisers.

I think giving great content out to people is critical, and exclusive, cool content they've never seen before is the best way to go.

If you look at cable networks, they almost always start licensing content wherever they can, so they can build a subscriber base. But then they start doing their own content; it's a pretty well-trodden path.

'Zoo' further demonstrates our commitment to high-quality, year-round programming and to high-concept series that play to summer audiences in the U.S. as well as on a global scale.

It's incredible that Apple is launching a streaming service with an ode to broadcast TV.

Our responsibility is to deliver the most compelling content to our players. and if we do that, the audiences are there.

Enough of the formulaic stuff. I am not saying pot-boilers are going to stop coming, but there should be other quality-centric films to off-set them, to maintain a steady balance.

I will do a big-budget film. I will do an indie film. I will do a short film. I will do a digital platform show, television, and even theatre. I don't have any restrictions in terms of platform as long as the content is something that I find interesting.

The thing that people should remember, is that back in the day, because wrestling does not have a season, every week is a week of first run TV. In the territories that I worked in, specifically, we never had a rerun. So those shows that aired, aired one time to their constituency.

In Vice, I saw all of it in one. I saw a studio. I saw a content creator. I saw an agency. I saw a distributor. We want to learn from them. They're talking to a generation we're struggling to connect to as an industry.