All you can do is make a piece of product, sell it on its own terms, stand behind it and hope that people will go see it. If you try to be like something else or appeal to any given group, then you can very easily end up being gratuitous and imitative. Th...
Roddy McDowall
`Complicity` is risque, but I`m not bothered by such things. I watched `Robocop` the other night and it was full of gratuitous violence. I would rather see gratuitous sex.
Keeley Hawes
`Complicity` is risque, but I`m not bothered by such things. I watched `Robocop` the other night and it was full of gratuitous violence. I would rather see gratuitous sex.
Keeley Hawes
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
I was very surprised how controversial it [her nude scene on NYPD Blue"] was, with entire cities not running it - especially because I knew the scenes weren`t gratuitous."
Amy Brenneman
Some people will say, `Ahhh, he`s over the top, it`s gratuitous,` [but] I disagree completely. He`s one of the most responsible filmmakers today as far as showing violence - which there`s very little of compared to other movies. It just stays with you bec...
Viggo Mortensen
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.
Allison Gilman
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
The concept has promise, but, as often happens in Mr. Gilliam`s movies, the narrative gets gummed up with his labored surrealism. ? The movie ? has some interesting visual imagery (including gratuitous bugs), but any one of the old wives the Grimm brother...
Andy Shoop
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
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
[Weisberger then takes a gratuitous swipe at Lizzie Grubman, saying] she has a face like a crocodile handbag. ... I hope using my name will really boost her book sales.
Lizzie Grubman
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous
George Eliot
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