#gratuitous

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

#excuse #generally #gives #got #gratuitous

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

— Edward Norton

#fan #films #gratuitous #i #i am

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#gratuitous #i #joke #like #never

I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous. ↗

— Amber Valletta

#gratuitous #i #i do #i think #say

It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#around #bunny #candy #caught #comes

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

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. ↗

— Man Ray

#create #creates #creation #desire #divine