Quotes from Jack Valenti

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.

The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.

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.

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

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

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

No one today knows what is indecent.

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.

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.

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