Dan Glickman
Dan Glickman
Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickmanis an American businessman and politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001, prior to which he represented the Kansas's 4th congressional district of Kansas as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years. He was Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of Americafrom 2004–2010. He serves as a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, where he focuses on public health, national security, and economic policy issues. He also...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 November 1944
CountryUnited States of America
I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
One of the trends we’re seeing in food and agriculture is more and more consumers wanting to know things about their food and where and how it’s grown and what’s in it,
The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
America's dumpsters should not be better fed than its people.
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
Everyone knows how to sum up box office in 2005. It was down. This is not breaking news. What is important in 2006 is how we respond to the changing marketplace.