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Jack Valenti

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


— Jack Valenti


#american #american film #american public #boston #film

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


— Jack Valenti


#better #made #world

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


— Jack Valenti


#control #dispatched #every #home #parent

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


— Jack Valenti


#film-makers #how #must #story #tell

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


#attract #back #build #capital #china

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


— Jack Valenti


#better #confidently #each #i #johnson

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


— Jack Valenti


#crime #decay #down #going #moral

No one today knows what is indecent.


— Jack Valenti


#knows #today

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


— Jack Valenti


#deserves #doing #group #only #parents

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


— Jack Valenti


#discreet #edgy #films #nerves #public






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In 2002 the University of Houston bestowed Valenti an honorary doctorate. 2003 screener ban injunction
In 2003 Valenti found himself at the center of the so-called screener debate as the MPAA barred studios and many independent producers from sending screener copies of their films to critics and voters in various awards shows. The founders wanted to support the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria in its work to prevent millions of people from dying of preventable and treatable diseases each year.

Jack Joseph Valenti (September 5 1921 – April 26 2007) was a longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America.

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