Jack Valenti Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.”
-- Jack Valenti

#Home Quotes #Boston Quotes #Vcr Quotes

“Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.”
-- Jack Valenti

#Stories Quotes #Film Quotes #Makers Quotes

“Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.”
-- Jack Valenti

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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.”
-- Jack Valenti

#Simple Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Censorship Quotes

“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 anything about poverty or the budget deficit, and you can't deal with Bosnia or the possibility of nuclear explosions in Russia, what do you do? You bash Hollywood and get on the front pages.”
-- Jack Valenti

Source : "Public Endorses Uplifting Movies, Dole Tells Hollywood" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. July 31, 1996.

#Russia Quotes #Risk Quotes #Bosnia Quotes

“The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.”
-- Jack Valenti

#America Quotes #Parent Quotes #Groups Quotes

“What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.”
-- Jack Valenti

#Law Quotes #Use Quotes #In-laws Quotes

“I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives and thinks and works to make sure that for all America and indeed, the growing body of the free world, the morning shall always come.”
-- Jack Valenti

Source : Jack Valenti (2007). “This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood”, p.168, Crown Archetype

#Morning Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes

“A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.”
-- Jack Valenti

Source : Jack Valenti's comments on the Cable television industry in testimony to Congress (June 1974), as quoted in "What Jack Valenti Did for Hollywood" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. April 27, 2007.

#Thinking Quotes #Television Quotes #Unfair Quotes

“In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.”
-- Jack Valenti

Source : "What Jack Valenti Taught Us All" by Matt Gerson, www.washingtonpost.com. April 28, 2007.

#Struggle Quotes #Political Quotes #Daggers Quotes

“If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.”
-- Jack Valenti

Source : Jack Valenti's testimony as President of the MPAA to the U.S. House of Representatives, cryptome.org. April 12, 1982.

“There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.”
-- Jack Valenti

Source : Interview with Peter Rojas, www.engadget.com. August 30, 2004.

#Use Quotes

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

#Understanding Quotes #Nerves Quotes #Film Quotes

“I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.”
-- Jack Valenti

#Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes #President Quotes

“If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.”
-- Jack Valenti

Source : "DVD-copy program tweaked after court order", CNN.com, February 23, 2004.

#Dvds Quotes #Want Quotes #Backup Quotes

“If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything!”
-- Jack Valenti

Source : Jack Valenti (2007). “This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood”, p.301, Crown Archetype

#Protect Quotes

“No one today knows what is indecent.”
-- Jack Valenti

Source : "US TV industry plans June ad campaign on decency". Reuters, April 24, 2006.

#Today Quotes

“There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.”
-- Jack Valenti

#World Quotes #Made Quotes

“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.”
-- Jack Valenti

#Chinese Quotes #Cinema Quotes #Demand Quotes

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

#Home Quotes #America Quotes #Parent Quotes

“If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.”
-- Jack Valenti

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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 to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that.”
-- Jack Valenti

Source : Entertainment Weekly, April 18, 2003.

#Home Quotes #School Quotes #Kids Quotes

“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 becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?”
-- Jack Valenti

Source : "A Plea For Keeping Alive the U.S. Film Industry's Competitive Energy". Jack Valenti's speech as MPAA Chairman and CEO before The Senate Judiciary Committee, September 20, 1995.

#Quality Quotes #Doe Quotes #Use Quotes

“In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.”
-- Jack Valenti

#Voice Quotes #Hollywood Quotes #Giants Quotes