Jack Valenti Quotes

"Serious efforts are underway to try to bring the domestic problems under control."

"I am proud that the entertainment industry and the citizens of Los Angeles turned out in full force to support a long overdue national memorial to Dr. King."

"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."

"The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing."

"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."

"In the last several years, piracy has been the dominant issue that has consumed my life,"

"Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today."

"Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it."

"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."

"I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president."

"I visited the labs at Caltech, and they’re running an experiment called FAST where they can bring down a DVD-quality movie in 5 seconds. The director told me it could be operative in the market in 18 months. Well, my face blanched."

"The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone."

"The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents."

"To endure in a volatile, unpredictable arena populated by egos the size of small planets is not an inconsiderable achievement,"

"The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing ... are parents."

"There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better."

"This is not a get-even book. There may be three or four people I vent a little spleen on, but it takes too much energy to be vengeful or hateful."

"The digital world, the world of virtual reality ... is going to be part of the embrace of this great, new cooperative venture."

"No one today knows what is indecent."

"If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down."