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I don't like message movies either.

I don't think good films have messages.

I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

Films with a message just make me laugh.

Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

I've been doing this for 33 years, and sometimes you make movies and nobody cares. But when people care, it's the greatest thing in the world - even when it's passionately against the title - because it's going to start a conversation.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.