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Jack Valenti

(1921–2007) Civil Servant

27 quotes in 173 categories

Jack Valenti was a civil servant, best known for Speak up with confidence.

Quick Facts About Jack Valenti

Born: September 5, 1921
Died: April 26, 2007
Profession: Civil Servant
Notable works: Speak up with confidence

About Jack Valenti

Jack Joseph Valenti was an American political advisor and lobbyist who served as a Special Assistant to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was also the longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America. During his 38-year tenure in the MPAA, he created the MPAA film rating system, and was generally regarded as one of the most influential pro-copyright lobbyists in the world.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jack Valenti

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

Crime

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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

Alone

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If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything!

Funny

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Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand…

Aging

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Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

America

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I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives…

America

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It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's…

Amendments

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I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go…

Convincing

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If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.

Ifs

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Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.

Dna

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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

Cinema

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In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known…

All time

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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

Cinema

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No one today knows what is indecent.

Knows

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The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

America

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There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.

Made

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The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.

American film

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If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.

Backup

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A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We…

Copyright

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To many Congressmen and Senators right now, there's a ceaseless antagonism toward Hollywood because politically, it is high-reward and low-risk. So when…

Antagonism

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I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

Johnson

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What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.

Fairs

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I don't know any other business that tells you not to go in and buy their product.

Business

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There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.

Fairs

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I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have…

Actors

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