Renee Fleming

It is always fragile, being a parent.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.