What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.

I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate.

I have a deep respect for the fundamentals of television, the traditions of it, even, but I don't have any reverence for it.

The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.

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.