Jack Valenti Quotes

"The movie is a reflector and not an innovator."

"In Hollywood, you`re a veteran if you`ve had a job of more than six weeks` tenure with one company."

"I don`t know any other business that tells you not to go in and buy their product." (on the rating of films)

(Of Oliver Stone`s "JFK") This was a package of unfathomable lies, packed together though with a cinema artist`s great skill. It was a blending and a millage of real photographs and fictional scenes and merged together with such skill that you were unable to tell the difference.

I never fathomed James Joyce.

Getting Cary Grant to pick up the restaurant check was a miracle few had ever witnessed.

The professional does his job right every time, without regard for anything else.

There isn`t anything in the world that can`t be made better.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

No one today knows what is indecent.