"I wasn't setting out to make a film that's an overt political statement, a message-y film," he said.
It was a statement, and a message of support, to women everywhere.
Brown's statement sent a message to his top cops — that they should take voluntary leaves.
Such voting restrictions, she said in a statement, "sent a message that contradicted some of the most basic principles of our democracy".
The only thing close to an official statement was a message, sent out to her roughly 12,000 followers on Twitter, thanking them for their support and signing off with, "I will keep you posted".
The chairmen of two studios — Sony and Fox — hit the roof, worrying that the statement sent a message that they did not want the government help to fight piracy.
Alongside this statement is a message on his fansite True To You, which explains in further detail that the 55-year-old collapsed following a show at Boston Opera House and was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital "where doctors treated Morrissey for 'acute fever'".
Pope John Paul II accompanied the statement with a message of his own, calling the Holocaust "an indelible stain on the history of the century". But the document itself was written by the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations With the Jews, and as such, some said, it resembled the work of a committee rather than an individual.
"It's Mrs Thatcher who crosses out the relevant parts of the document that indicate she, the British government, is not prepared to give in on work and association". At the end of the statement was a message.
"I'm not trying to make a big statement or a message, but I am trying to make sense.
Dottie Sandusky made the statement in a message she sent to Judge John Cleland after her husband of nearly five decades was convicted of sexually abusing 10 young boys.
