Eric Darnell Quotes

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.

I went to University College London and read English literature, then realised if you were interested in story and narrative, film was the way to go.

USC has really developed my love for the cinema.

I went to college at University of Tennessee.

I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.

I went to school at the University of Rhode Island and pursued a degree in journalism, which is a little bit ironic.

I did my BMS from Bhavan's College in Mumbai and a post-graduate diploma in journalism and mass communication.

I studied film studies at USC.

My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.

My dad got a job as a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He teaches biology and genetics. My dad has been obsessed with science his whole life. Both my paternal grandparents were illiterate bamboo farmers, so he really worked his way up and then got a Ph.D., full ride and everything, from universities in America.

Another part of my background was that I was in film school.

I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.

I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.

I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years, where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year.

I went to film school at UT Austin.

I went to film school; I went to NYU film school.

I majored in business at LSU before I left.

One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film school in the world is right here in Chicago: Columbia College.

I studied English literature in university, and then I went straight into radio.

I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.

I went to NYU undergrad, then went to AFI for grad school.

As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.

I didn't want to be in high school. I didn't want to go to grade school. I wanted to learn rock n' roll and paint pictures and throw pots and write haiku and study film.

My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't.