I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.
Only the autodidacts are free.
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
Most people had high school. I had Breaking Bad.
I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.
I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.
I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.
I was a maverick. I went to five different colleges looking for I don't know quite what.
Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing.
There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.
I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.
I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal, because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world, we shouldn't be condemned for leaving.
I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.
My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.
What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.
School gets in the way of my learning.
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.
I remember, in fifth grade, doing a report on the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as a rap. It was just an easy way to get an A back then because everyone was turning in boring stuff.
