Reed Hastings Quotes

HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes.

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

I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.

I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.

I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees.

The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.

The reality is, 'Game of Thrones' has been a successful show for HBO, which has put us in a position to come and pitch another show and get them excited about it. And that's what helped get us here.

It's ridiculous that we let broadcast and cable shows compete against each other at the Emmys. They are not the same animal.

Television is a tough business. It's not that easy to jump shops.

[The Weather Channel] is the most watched cable channel in America. I'll repeat that. It is the most watched cable channel in America. They were worried about the terrorists immobilizing us, and a portion of our countrymen watch weather. 'Kay, you don't get any more immobile than that... unless you're in a goddamn coma. That means you're saying, "I'd go to the window, but it's too far." If you want to know what the weather is you go to a window and stick your hand out and if you want to know what the temperature is you drive by a bank.

The Emmys are flat-out fun.

There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.

In the U.S., there are around 300 shows in different networks, so there's a lot of work here.

In the old days you could do re-runs, and people would have to watch that because there's nothing else. But with Netflix and Amazon, Hulu, Xbox, as well as premium and regular cable, it's very hard to do that.

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.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television.

There are only a few TV networks that really invest in production in the way that I think they should. HBO, obviously, is one of them.

I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.

I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they like to produce.

Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.

It used to be that you had to do a certain number of episodes to hit syndication in order to try to keep a show on, because it's important to the network because it sells good commercial time. That's really not how HBO does things.

ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News.