How to Use Text Messages in a Movie

"I think there's a certain level of trashiness you have to reach before you can use bubbles popping up on the screen," he says. "You can dispense with all the chrome of what text messages look like because all of that will be out of date eventually anyway and make your movie look ridiculous." The problem is the two ends of it, the extreme laziness of just showing a phone, which often isn't very clear to read. And then they're trying to be flashy about look at our text, aren't we so clever showing the text message, right? Like this animation?"