Renee Fleming Quotes

We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn't have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path.

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.

You need to be open and explore while heading where you want to go. You can never be too in love with your own ideas. If you can remember every idea that is yours in a script, as opposed to someone else's, then something is wrong.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

I always look at 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. 'Why don't we just change it to coconuts?' That's part of my process.

Sometimes you don't get in through the front door. Sometimes you don't get in through the back. Sometimes you got to climb through the window. That doesn't mean the opportunity wasn't there. There's a way; you've just got to find it.

I am always open to when someone says, 'Let's do it this way.'

Don't be too close-minded, and don't think there's only one way to get to where you want to be. There are a thousand ways to get there, and if one way doesn't work, try the other.

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.

Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.

I haven't gotten stuck with something because I just keep going, and I keep doing different things.

There's always one more way to do something-- your way.

Make it work

I love to work in all sorts of different situations. I think you learn a lot, which is why I try not to approach something the same way, because it might not be appropriate, and then you can get lazy just out of boredom. So I love any approach.

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

There is a way; Up, Around, Over or Through