Gratuitous Quotes

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

Life, Friendship, Great

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
Henry Miller

Good, Speak, Write

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

Smoking, Films, Smoke

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

Music, Sex, Two

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, Sex, Two

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

Society, Live, Everything

There's nothing gratuitous about my films.
Dario Argento

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

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

Humor, Problem, Nudity

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

Work, Fashion, Against

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

Human, Desire, Create

I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake.
Michael Biehn

Movies, Violence, Sake

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
Michael Biehn

Violence, Moral, Far

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

Night, Leaving, Around

I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.
Bobby Farrelly

Powerful, Reality, Thought

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

We were mainly concerned about nudity - how much could be shown in 1959 and how much would convey, without being gratuitous, the terror of being attacked naked and wet.
Joseph Stefano

Concerned, Naked, Terror

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