Top 35 Jack Valenti Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.
Jack Valenti
#3. I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
Jack Valenti
#4. There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.
Jack Valenti
#5. Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest:
Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers:
Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest,
And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
W.S. Gilbert
#6. If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don't Own Anything!
Jack Valenti
#7. I've fallen out of favour
And I've fallen from grace
Fallen out of trees
And I've fallen on my face
Fallen out of taxis
Out of windows too
Fell in your opinion
When I fell in love with you
Florence Welch
#8. In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.
Jack Valenti
#9. Only Truth can give true reputation: only reality can be of real profit.
Baltasar Gracian
#11. What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.
Jack Valenti
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.
Jack Valenti
#15. What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling like, and to have been taught by rough and bitter experience to long for the calm amidst which I now repined!
Charlotte Bronte
#16. Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
Jack Valenti
#17. If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
Jack Valenti
#18. Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die ... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.
Ashley Montagu
#19. If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.
Jack Valenti
#21. 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
#22. Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others
Roland Merullo
#23. The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing ... are parents.
Jack Valenti
#24. Eventually I realised there must be a way by playing with the molecules; trying to turn the molecules on and off allows you to see adjacent things you couldn't see before.
Stefan Hell
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you cannot even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap.
Ambrose Bierce
#28. Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
Jack Valenti
#29. 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
#30. The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
Jack Valenti
#31. The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
Jack Valenti
#32. There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
Jack Valenti
#33. Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.
Benjamin Hoff
#34. You know that theory I have about friends not being forever ... or even for a while? Well, every theory has an exception. Ryke is mine.
Krista Ritchie
#35. I had had my night of weeping ... I had purged myself of useless emotions that terrible night, now every nerve every sinew, every thought was bent on a single purpose
Elizabeth Peters
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