#gratuitous

There's nothing gratuitous about my films. ↗

— Dario Argento

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I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films. ↗

— Edward Norton

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I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem. ↗

— Rebecca Romijn

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Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes. ↗

— Judi Dench

#goes #gratuitous #just #live #nudity

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#character #character development #development #furthers #graphic

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

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To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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