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When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

— Christian Bale

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens.

— Lenny Abrahamson

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.

— Ang Lee

In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.

— Willem Dafoe

When you're playing a supporting character, you don't really have a lot of control of the quality of the film.

— Jason Bateman

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

— Ang Lee

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.

— Larry Cohen

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

— Morgan Freeman

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't think good films have messages.

— Julia Leigh

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

— Robert McKee

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

— John Lee Hancock