Creativity quotes

“I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.”
Renny Harlin

“People want to be creatively satisfied, and having fun is such an important part of that.”
John Lasseter

“Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.”
Sam Wood

“You know what? You're a criminal. 'Cause you rob these kids of their creativity and their passion. That's the real crime!”

Justin Long - Bartleby Gaines

“- Joshua Peters: Excuse me, does this belong to you?
- Sylvia: Now what's he gone and done?
- Joshua Peters: Well, he was creating a fairly sophisticated surveillance system behind the ladies' cabana.”
Mark Wahlberg - Joshua Peters
Sakina Jaffrey - Sylvia

“Artists have the power, through our imagination to escape and degenerate world and create a better one.”
Toby Jones - Truman Capote

“- Bill Gates: I think I had a date tonight with Ann.
- Ballmer: I thought she was away on business.
- Bill Gates: She is.
- Ballmer: Then how can you have a date?
- Bill Gates: Well, I go to a movie here, and then she goes to the same movie in Denver, and then we talk on the phone about it afterwards.
- Ballmer: Jeez Bill, I hate to see what...” (continue)(continue reading)
Anthony Michael Hall - Bill Gates
John DiMaggio - Steve Ballmer

“Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.”
Russell Crowe - John Nash

“François Lafete must have total control of the creative product - like, eh, Godard. Jean-Luc Godard. Did you ever hear of that guy?”
Steve Inwood - François Lafete

“Even in most primitive man, the need to create was part of his nature. This need, this talent clearly separated early man from animals, who would never know this gift.”
Orson Welles - Narrator (voice)

“Your life is so utterly without meaning that simply to survive you have to reinvent yourself. Because if people can't find you, they can't dislike you.”

Christian McKay - Orson Welles

“You know, it's easier to pull the trigger than play guitar. Easier to destroy than to create.”
Antonio Banderas - El Mariachi

“- Additional Stepford Wife: I'm going to use a pinecone as the baby Jesus this year.
- Bobbie Markowitz: And I'm going to attach a pinecone to my vibrator and have a really merry Christmas!”
Emily Wing - Additional Stepford Wife
Bette Midler - Bobbie Markowitz

“I'm not a great man for telling things the way they are. I mean, I've been known to add a little color to stories and riddles for the benefit of those who will listen.”
Ian Bannen - Jackie O'Shea

“Creative differences? The difference is, you're not creative.”
Al Pacino - Viktor Taransky

“What are you talking about? We got crosses all over the place. All you gotta do is put two sticks together and you got a cross.”

Ernest Liu - Scott Fuller

“- James West: You know, you could put a gun on that.
- Artemus Gordon: Then where would I keep my pencil?”

Will Smith - James West
Kevin Kline - Artemus Gordon

“- Steve Jobs: I don't want you to think of this as just a film - some process of converting electrons and magnetic impulses into shapes and figures and sounds. No. Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or poet. That's how you have to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Noah Wyle - Steve Jobs
J.G. Hertzler - Ridley Scott

“- Loveless Hentchman: I learned that from a China man.
- James West: I just made that up.”

Will Smith - James West

“- Ellie: You had all the symptoms but not the disease.
- Val: You used to think I was creative and original.
- Ellie: I still do, as a filmmaker. It's when you became creative as a hypochondriac - that was it.”
Téa Leoni - Ellie
Woody Allen - Val

“- Uncle Julius: Our Sybylla appears to have hidden talents.
- Aunt Helen: The only trouble is - you don't know what she'll do next.”
Peter Whitford - Uncle Julius
Wendy Hughes - Aunt Helen

“- Questioner: I was just wondering if you could tell me, um, if you thought drugs and alcohol would make me a better writer.
- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: That's a good question. Let me see... In my case, you know, I hate to advocate drugs or liquor, violence, insanity to anyone. But in my case it's worked.”
Joshua Daniel - Questioner
Bill Murray - Hunter S. Thompson

“How are we going to involve a serial killer in the creative process?”
Tom Wood - Tiger

“We don't associate with the creative types. We have a Scrabble club. We associate with people with babies.”
Linda Kash - Mrs. Allan Pearl

“- Marcus Vindictus: Do you know the punishment for a slave who strikes a Roman citizen? [the crowd starts shouting and raising hands] Ok, you, you had your hand up first.
- Man 1: Death by torture!
- Marcus Vindictus: No. You?
- Man 2: Crucifixion!
- Marcus Vindictus: Wrong! You?
- Man 3: They shove a living snake up your ass!
- Marcus Vindictus...” (continue)(continue reading)
Shecky Greene - Marcus Vindictus