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Niklas Zennstrom

"And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more."

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"And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more."

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"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives."

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"Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies."

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"We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama."

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"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

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"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."

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"My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time."

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"If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down."

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"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"

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"It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that."
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"We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting."
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"Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way."
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"Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free."
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"They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing."
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"The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century."
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"We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries."
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"Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet."
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