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
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When people make up invitation lists, they are in the top 10.
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to tell us what kind of movies to make.
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Yet one thing has not changed, ... A moviemaker's single indispensable asset -- as elementally essential now as it was in the Golden Years -- is the Story. And that means studio executives of this era must share the same DNA as industry pioneers in at least one particular -- the ability to find a narrative with heart and heat.
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There are public servants, and there are public servants who are stars. Antonio is a star . . . . He is an enticing man.
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This was about contributing Hollywood's creative imagination and their persuasion skills to help in this war effort so that one day Americans can lead normal lives again,
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To have something happen that never before in our history have we ever borne witness to or imagined, that hits very deep in the entrails of this country.
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The government cannot devise and enforce it's own ratings systems. For a variety of First Amendment reasons it just can't be done, ... Indeed, the FTC report clearly states there are serious First Amendment problems.
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you begin to torment and torture the First Amendment.
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I don't know any other business that tells you not to go in and buy their product.
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Sen. Stevens asked me if I would attend a work-forum on ratings systems, how they work and how they were developed. I told him I would be there.
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The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing ... are parents.
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We're hard at work trying to make parents better understand that they have total control today over what individual programs they allow into their homes. We want to show a closer rapport between the TV ratings system and the movie ratings system.
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Frankly I will confess to this panel that privately I take issue every now and then with the rating of a film, and I think the rating board might have erred. But if there are errors in the accuracy of a movie rating, it is a matter of a judgment call and not an exile in integrity,