Ted Sarandos Quotes

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

A movie needs to have a must-see quality among the people you are targeting. Also, make movies at a responsible budget so that if you attract your core audience, and they show up in the first few weekends, the economics will work.

If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model.

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

In the U.K., there's absolutely no money for television. So you can do pretty much whatever you want. They're not losing money on any of the shows, so they'll give you a lot of creative freedom. In the United States, there are millions and millions of dollars at stake, so they need a sure formula.

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

I'm not in business to make money.

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

You must spend money to make money.

In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.

I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

I think the biggest issue for legacy media - both TV and film - is that it just costs too much money to develop a TV series or movie. And most of them don't work. Then the one that works has to pay for the rest.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

Personally, I'm not interested in getting more money for what I do; I'm just interested in more money being put into the production.

I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.