48 Movie Quotes about Creativity (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: May 6, 2026

Memorable quotes about creativity, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 But I don't think he has it in him to command. When we were boys, if we found a reed, I would make a sword and he would make a flute.

Romulus And Remus in Duel of the Titans (1961)

22 Well, I told you, I wanna do something different. -So put some Jell-O down your pants.

Art Carney in The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

23 Women, as a witty Frenchman put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

24 A man, an idea, the equipment, a place to work in secret: All the ingredients are here.

Quote from 4D Man (1959)

25 Do you want to be remembered as a creator or a killer?

Lee Meriwether as Linda Davis in 4D Man (1959)

26 Thief. You've stolen my music. Thief!

Claude Rains as Erique Claudin in Phantom of the Opera (1943)

27 Yeah, that's a very interesting mixture of poetry and meanness.

Quote from The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

28 That's what's going to be hard to write. Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. It's so simple. You've got to catch it through details... like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rainspout in front of her house.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

29 Oh, brother. I got to hand it to you. You can certainly think up a good story when you need one.

Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

30 What a masterpiece. Look at that. This is your legacy.

Quote from Iron Man (2008)