Anurag Kashyap Quotes

Cornell changed my life; getting in there was one of my pinnacle moments.

I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspectives and stuff that they will share.

If I was going to go to college, I had to have a scholarship. By my sophomore year, it was evident golf was not going to be the path.

I used to sit in bed at night and flip through design-school catalogs. I found out that Parsons accepted a small number of high school juniors, so I applied my sophomore year and got in.

I was packing to go to Columbia University, and they told me that weekend that I got the 'Pitch Perfect.'

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.

I wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. But I didn't get a good rank, so I got civil engineering.

I'm very proud to tell you guys I have been accepted into Stanford University, one of the main institutions of learning and research in the world.

I went to uni, and I studied commerce on a scholarship, and that was crazy and wild in and of itself.

I ended up going to Harvard College, which was about as likely in my neighborhood as going to the moon.

I was accepted to North Carolina School of the Arts with stitches in my mouth.

The SAT allows less-privileged students access to universities that previously were the bastions of the wealthy.

I got into Cambridge and it all went downhill.

Duke and UNC are great schools.

I spend most of my time by being at a university, hanging out with very manic, excited 18-year-olds.

I taught myself algebra and a little grammar, and somehow I scraped a high enough score on the ACT to be admitted to Brigham Young University, even though I had no formal education.

I was going to be a chemical engineer - I was a science nerd - that was the plan. I secretly applied to USC and NYU and got a scholarship to go to NYU based on a dumb animated short I made. It was a huge shock to me and my family.

I studied at Carnegie Mellon. I went there with a bunch of really, really talented kids.

It was always like there was no doubt in anybody's mind that I was going to UCLA, so once UCLA started recruiting me, everybody started pushing me there.

Maybe you think, 'I'm not college material.' Maybe you worry that you don't have the money. Then you take the SAT. You see that colleges are getting in touch with you. You begin to think maybe you are ready for college.

There's a lot of amazing people that don't get into college.

I never did figure on being a college man.

I put myself through college.