Ted Sarandos Quotes

Who could have imagined that a platform like - I'll use Netflix as a example - that it could be so good?

With platforms like Netflix, things are evolving as they are making content-driven films and series.

When we launched Hulu, everybody was saying, 'Oh, this is going to be a substitute for pay TV in the living room.'

You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.

Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.

Let's be honest, Netflix has stepped up its game up. It seems to have a lot more of an assortment of stuff.

Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.

Netflix is a lifesaver.

Netflix is just wonderful.

Netflix is in every country except China and North Korea.

I don't even think in the future, pay-per-view is going to exist. You see Netflix and Amazon and what they're doing, and that's a model I think is going to grow and grow.

I didn't have cable, so YouTube was my cartoons.

Netflix is my homepage.

To be honest, making films is so expensive and their shelf life is limited. On the web, content remains... you can watch it after five, eight, 10 years... There's a huge audience and content on the web is accessible at the click of a phone.

The thousands of clips on internet are better to us than any DVD that could have been released.

The online video business started in both China and the US around 2005/6, when broadband penetration grew big enough.

Hulu is about the shows, not the networks. The shows are the brands that users care about.

Netflix, I love you.

People think about the world of TV and the world of online video as being different ways to distribute video. But what happens when every TV is connected to wi-fi with a browser?

My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except, 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.' So it's harder to get a show on the air, but at the same time, there are a lot of terrific shows.

Netflix shook it up, brought this whole new generation of people who said, 'I watch things when I want to watch, how I want to watch, where I want to watch, and that's something that no one's going to ever forget.' This has changed the game completely, and I think it's the tip of the iceberg.

I don't tend to watch TV. I'm like a Netflix junkie. I watch a lot of documentaries and movies on Netflix. I like 'Downton Abbey.'

Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the Internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still paying for cable or satellite service often also have Netflix or Hulu accounts.

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

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