Jack Valenti
Jack Valenti
Jack Joseph Valentiwas a longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America. During his 38-year tenure in the MPAA, he created the MPAA film rating system, and he was generally regarded as one of the most influential pro-copyright lobbyists in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth5 September 1921
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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In the last several years, piracy has been the dominant issue that has consumed my life,
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There was no mention of content, ... The White House and its representatives did not say anything about that because they knew that was not the subject that was up for either debate or suggestion. Content was off the table.
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Frankly I will confess to this panel that privately I take issue every now and then with the rating of a film, and I think the rating board might have erred. But if there are errors in the accuracy of a movie rating, it is a matter of a judgment call and not an exile in integrity,
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The digital world, the world of virtual reality ... is going to be part of the embrace of this great, new cooperative venture.
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They are sprung from the same DNA , for God's sake. They are always onstage. They are always performing.
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I don't know any other business that tells you not to go in and buy their product.
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This was about contributing Hollywood's creative imagination and their persuasion skills to help in this war effort so that one day Americans can lead normal lives again,
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
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Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.
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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.
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If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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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.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.