Michael Gambon Quotes

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.

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

I think Netflix is responsible for what will become how we view television.

Television is dead. And television will not be reborn. It will not come back.

Thanks to Netflix and Hulu, people are getting more and more used to consuming longer stretches of content on their televisions or computer screens.

I don't see all the movies that come out.

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

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.

Independent filmmakers already have their heads around people on their couches watching their movies.

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.

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.

My generation is under-entertained.

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

Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.

Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.

I have Netflix, but I don't watch television.

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.'

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!

The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.

If you have a smartphone, you can give content to the world. The days of putting a movie in movie theaters because people don't have a choice is over.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

I love Netflix and Amazon and watching movies on streamers as much as the next person.

We don't have cable, so I don't watch a lot of traditional TV. I watch a lot of Netflix, and there's this thing in Canada called Show Me, and then I also get things from iTunes.

When TV came in, it closed a lot of theatres. Even the 'ice' shows melted away.