Jack Valenti
Jack Valenti
Jack Joseph Valentiwas a 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 he was generally regarded as one of the most influential pro-copyright lobbyists in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth5 September 1921
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
dvds want copies
If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.
quality use benefits
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?
school kids home
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.
decay moral crime
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
chinese cinema demand
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.
world made
There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
today knows
No one today knows what is indecent.
protect ifs
If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything!
understanding nerves edginess
The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
russia risk hollywood
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.
america parent groups
The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
voice giants ambassadors
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.
law use fairs
What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
morning sleep night
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.