Glenn Kelman Quotes

We can always find creative ways to do things.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

I believe in anything that works.

I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.

There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.

I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.

The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to do that.'

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

It is poor rule that won't work more ways than one.

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.

There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along.

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.

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

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