Jack Valenti Quotes

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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 music.
• The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.
• If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything!
• No one today knows what is indecent.
• There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
• Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
• Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.
• Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
• If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
• I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools.…
• A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it…
• Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.
• If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.
• I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
• The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
• 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 you can't do…
• The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
• What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
• The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
• I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of…

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