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 you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.

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.

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

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

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?

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