71 Best Creativity Quotes

The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration. – Arianna Huffington

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed. – Stanley Kubrick

The most personal is the most creative. – Martin Scorsese

I steal from every single movie ever made. – Quentin Tarantino

The good ideas will survive. – Quentin Tarantino

My process is thinking, dreaming, and living the story. – Quentin Tarantino

I have a very childlike imagination. – Quentin Tarantino

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long. – Steven Spielberg

The best inventions happen when people are playing. – Steven Spielberg

You have to know what you're doing, but you also have to be open to the happy accident. – Steven Spielberg

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination. – Steven Spielberg

There is something more important than logic: imagination. – Alfred Hitchcock

Man is a genius when he is dreaming. – Akira Kurosawa

The most important asset I have is my intuition. – Akira Kurosawa

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. – Francis Ford Coppola

I think that when you make a movie, you always have to be in a state of dreaming. – Francis Ford Coppola

I’ve never been interested in making just one kind of film. – Ridley Scott

I think that the enemy of art is fear. – Denis Villeneuve

I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful. – Ingmar Bergman

It is my opinion that art lost its creative urge the moment it was separated from worship. – Ingmar Bergman

To be an artist is to be wounded. – Ingmar Bergman