Michael Ovitz Quotes

The inexorable rise of the Internet and the citizen journalist presents us all with challenges for the future.

From early on... we really looked at the Internet as a whole new way to provide storytelling and entertainment.

For me, Amazon has stepped in and presented the future of entertainment. Obviously, the future of entertainment is going to be on the internet.

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.

At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.

Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative.

The Internet, as a platform, I think is really fantastic.

The digital component is enormous in not only wrestling but all of entertainment. Every day, you read a new blog or article on Netflix, Hulu, this program and that program. It's where everything is heading.

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.

Having done quite a bit with studios and networks, I thought if I'm going to do something new and unformed, it would be fun to do it in a completely new space and place. The space being the Internet and the place being Crackle.

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.

I think, because of the Internet, we're not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distribution that there used to be.

The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people will keep on telling stories.

Netflix completely shook up the world.

I'm excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

I definitely applaud Netflix and all of those guys, whether it's Hulu or whoever, for doing original programming.

I love technology. I love trying to tell stories in new ways using technology.

The Internet is amazing.

Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.

Suddenly, everyone woke up, and everything was moving online. We've got Netflix making original series, CBS placing their network online, and suddenly, everyone's announcing some kind of digital network for serving their content online.

Barriers are being brought down by technology through the Internet.