A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?

Jack Valenti

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The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler... by Jack Valenti

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

vcr boston home

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

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

film makers stories

Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA. by Jack Valenti

Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.

hollywood dna spring

In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger dig... by Jack Valenti

In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.

daggers political struggle

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

power home america

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are... by Jack Valenti

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

groups parent america

A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.

unfair television thinking

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.

movie adults father

If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing. by Jack Valenti

If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.

protected ifs

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. For I know he lives and thinks and works to make sure that for all America and indeed, the growing body of the free world, the morning shall always come.

sleep morning night

What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law. by Jack Valenti

What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law.

fairs use law

There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you... by Jack Valenti

There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.

not-fair fairs use

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.

hollywood giants voice

To many Congressmen and Senators right now, there's a ceaseless antagonism toward Hollywood because politically, it is high-reward and low-risk. So when you can't do anything about poverty or the budget deficit, and you can't deal with Bosnia or the possibility of nuclear explosions in Russia, what do you do? You bash Hollywood and get on the front pages.

bosnia russia risk

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

edginess nerves understanding

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

president sleep night

If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything! by Jack Valenti

If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything!

protect ifs

No one today knows what is indecent. by Jack Valenti

No one today knows what is indecent.

knows today

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

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

made world

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.

chinese demand cinema