• First, please, don't think you are not creative or innovative.
• Then watch this speech from Sir Ken Robinson's who offers an interesting definition of creativity: "an idea that has value."
• BTW, by watching this you will realize that the Western education system does not value creativity as it should. We are all creative, or as Picasso better put it: "All children are born artists. The problem is to remain one".

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

1. Read read read. A rich vocabulary forces your brain to exploit it better.
2. Watch all the great movies if you want to develop a better visual brain
3. Watch or read all the great humorists. Because just like visual artists, they challenge perception and reality in a new (and funny) way
4. Go to museums, for the same reason as #2 and #3.

1. Take it easy. Take whatever subject (arts, movies, books, ..) that attracts you the most and start with that.
2. Rephrase "I wanna be more creative" by "I wanna be more curious". Think about your everyday life: How can you be more curious today? And tomorrow?
3. Rephrase "I wanna be more creative and innovative" by "I'd like to learn more about the work of "creative" people" and then ask yourself how do you think they came up with this idea, because that idea came from somewhere (see J. Jarmusch quote). You mentioned Stanley Kubrick: he was influenced by many many things from his earlier life, like Greek and Roman mythology, photography, sic-fi themes, other movie makers like Eisenstein, and so on.

• Be acutely observant of your environment, by using all your senses;
• Be curious and inquisitive;
• Be open-minded to new and even radical possibilities;
• Suspend judgement;
• Make unlikely connections;
• Ask questions, all kinds, especially open-ended ones, like "what if?", "why not?", "So what?", "What now?", etc.
• Think like a child, but don't be childish, so to develop the beginner's mindset;
• Learn to see things backwards, inside out, andupside down; inside the box as well as outside the box, plus no box at all;
• Learn to see from atop; see ahead; see beyond; see behind; see sideways; see beneath; see from within; and see through, so as to develop multi-directional and multi-developmental viewpoints;
• Break patterned routines, so as to be able to see something different or think something different or do something different; more precisely, to see the world afresh and anew;
• Hitchhike; copycat; piggyback; leapfrog on other peoples' ideas, as "Ideas Build on Ideas";
• You can make use of the simple but provenSCAMPER technique [it dates back to the 1950's], to expand your idea generation;