Pharmacological? Wall Street Journal Financial Editor Dennis K. Berman pushed Hastings to continue on that point, which sparked a hilarious off-handed description about "entertainment drugs." "In twenty or fifty years, taking a personalized blue pill, you just hallucinate in an entertaining way, and then a white pill brings you back to normality is perfectly viable," he said. "If the source of human entertainment in thirty or forty years is pharmacological we'll be in real trouble."

In the same interview, Hastings says that he's not opposed to the AT&T and Time Warner merger, so as long as Netflix traffic gets treated the same way as HBO's. He also explains that Netflix won't go into news and sports, though he did mention that the upcoming "Ultimate Beastmaster" is a take on "Ninja Warrior."