I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.
While still a young student at film school, I was lucky enough to get a golden ticket to a Martin Scorsese master class at BAFTA in Piccadilly: fancy, but technically still 'the flicks'.
I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.
I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.
I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.
I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live.
Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.
A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.
The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
