Quotes by Jack Valenti - Page 1

No one today knows what is indecent.
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Knows
Today
Indecent
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Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.
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Dna
Hollywood
Spring
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If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.
Jack Valenti / Lobbyist
Ifs
Protected
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If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything!
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Ifs
Protect
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There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
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Made
World
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
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Film
Makers
Stories
Film-Makers
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What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
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Fairs
Law
Use
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In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.
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Daggers
Political
Struggle
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If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.
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Backup
Dvds
Want
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The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
Jack Valenti / Lobbyist
America
Groups
Parent
Scrutinize
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There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.
Jack Valenti / Lobbyist
Fairs
Not Fair
Use
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
Jack Valenti / Lobbyist
Movie
Crime
Decay
Moral
Ought
Causing
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The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.
Jack Valenti / Lobbyist
Home
Boston
Vcr
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I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
Jack Valenti / Lobbyist
Johnson
Night
President
Sleep
Confidently
Each
Each Night
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
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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.
Jack Valenti / Lobbyist
American Film
Boston
Vcr
American Public
Producer
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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.
Jack Valenti / Lobbyist
Discreet
Edginess
Edgy
Nerves
Understanding
Raw
Showing
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Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
Jack Valenti / Lobbyist
Power
Home
America
Parent
Programming
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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 / Lobbyist
Censorship
Firsts
Simple
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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 for U.S. films.
Jack Valenti / Lobbyist
Aging
China
Chinese
Cinema
Consumers
Demand
Infrastructure
Attract
Capital
Modernize
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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 and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.
Jack Valenti / Lobbyist
Giants
Hollywood
Voice
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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 do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.
Jack Valenti / Lobbyist
Television
Thinking
Unfair
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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 the stigma of being in a category that's going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures.
Jack Valenti / Lobbyist
Movie
Actors
Adults
Father
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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 / Lobbyist
Kids
Home
School
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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 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 / Lobbyist
Morning
Night
Sleep
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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 / Lobbyist
Quality
Doe
Use
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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 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 / Lobbyist
Bosnia
Risk
Russia
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