

You Do You
Once when I was trying to get a dark, gritty feature film about prison solitary confinement off the ground, a film executive at a major agency said, "Don't ever call it a "message film", they don't sell and people hate them." At the time I was naive and let the wet blanket he threw over me snuff my ambition. But soon after I realized how stupid it was, because not only does every film have a message, every form of art does as well. It's just a matter of how overt that messa