There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better. (Jack Valenti)
We want to tell American parents that they and they alone have total power to control every hour of television programming that comes into their home. (Jack Valenti)
In the last several years, piracy has been the dominant issue that has consumed my life, (Jack Valenti)
Mr. Rove wanted to come out and have a meeting with the top executives of the studios, the television networks, theater owners, to see what ideas we have that would enable this war to be fought on every front, ... The ideas will be lofted at this meeting on Sunday, and then I'll see to it, with my colleagues' help, that we transform these ideas into action. (Jack Valenti)
There was no mention of content, ... The White House and its representatives did not say anything about that because they knew that was not the subject that was up for either debate or suggestion. Content was off the table. (Jack Valenti)
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. (Jack Valenti)
The digital world, the world of virtual reality ... is going to be part of the embrace of this great, new cooperative venture. (Jack Valenti)
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. (Jack Valenti)
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. (Jack Valenti)
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. (Jack Valenti)
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. (Jack Valenti)
Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it. (Jack Valenti)
No one today knows what is indecent. (Jack Valenti)
That's the primary thing I learned, you cannot fight a war without public support. And the second thing is, you cannot, no matter what mighty army you are conquering a foreign land, you cannot win against an insurgency that springs from the population with their traditions and their religion and their culture. Never has been done in history. (Jack Valenti)
That's just wrong, ... Some people in marketing have stepped over the line from reasonable to unacceptable. (Jack Valenti)