Jack Valenti famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Home #Boston #Vcr
Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
-- Jack Valenti

#Stories #Film #Makers
Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.
-- Jack Valenti

#Spring #Dna #Hollywood
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 #Firsts #Censorship
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

#Russia #Risk #Bosnia
The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
-- Jack Valenti

#America #Parent #Groups
What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
-- Jack Valenti

#Law #Use #In-laws
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

#Morning #Sleep #Night
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

#Thinking #Television #Unfair
In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.
-- Jack Valenti

#Struggle #Political #Daggers
If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.
-- Jack Valenti
There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.
-- Jack Valenti

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

#Understanding #Nerves #Film
I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
-- Jack Valenti

#Sleep #Night #President
If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.
-- Jack Valenti

#Dvds #Want #Backup
If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Donâ€™t Own Anything!
-- Jack Valenti

#Protect
No one today knows what is indecent.
-- Jack Valenti

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

#World #Made
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 #Cinema #Demand
Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
-- Jack Valenti

#Home #America #Parent
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
-- Jack Valenti

#Decay #Moral #Crime
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

#Home #School #Kids
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

#Quality #Doe #Use
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 #Hollywood #Giants

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