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.
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The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.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.
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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
Serious efforts are underway to try to bring the domestic problems under control.
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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
Speechwriters have a unique distinction in Washington -- none of us has ever been indicted.
Jack Valenti
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