#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

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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. ↗

— Simone Weil

#art #fault #friendship #gratuitous #great

There's nothing gratuitous about my films. ↗

— Dario Argento

#films #gratuitous #nothing

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

— Harold Ramis

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

— Amber Valletta

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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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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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