The major international appeal for ‘House of Cards’ was kind of a surprise because it’s a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global. – Ted Sarandos
Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don’t make it for any country. – Ted Sarandos
Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that’s all lost money. There’s no monetization of a broken series. – Ted Sarandos
More and more what we’re licensing, we’re licensing on a global basis – even though the studios aren’t orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will. – Ted Sarandos
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. – Ted Sarandos
Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night’s episode. – Ted Sarandos
I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don’t have any reverence for it. – Ted Sarandos
There’s no such thing as ‘too much TV,’ unless we’re all spending more and not watching more. – Ted Sarandos
I don’t think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don’t think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters – not yet, not yet. – Ted Sarandos
David Fincher’s work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey’s films have all worked on Netflix. – Ted Sarandos
On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you’re getting out; that’s what you’re doing. If you don’t want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix. – Ted Sarandos
If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it’s not an experience you can replicate at home. – Ted Sarandos
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. – Ted Sarandos
There are films like ‘Interstellar’ where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX – it’s an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can’t replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland. – Ted Sarandos
When we say a show is successful, it’s because, relative to the investment, it’s successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation – did it attract the audience that it was built for. – Ted Sarandos
Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they’re opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want. – Ted Sarandos
I think we can launch – successfully, high quality – around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you’re launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world. – Ted Sarandos
I think when you see ‘Ridiculous Six,’ the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians. – Ted Sarandos
The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows. – Ted Sarandos
When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there’s not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don’t sell into syndication well; they’re expensive to produce. – Ted Sarandos