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Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

Oh my God, I love UCLA so much. Their film school is great because it's unstructured, so there's a freedom to fail in there and just tell your story, and everybody makes a film. It's so important to have that freedom in film school because that's what you're there for: to learn and make a film.

I went to 11 different schools. It was a fantastic adventure, but I was incredibly sensitive and needed a bit more stability.

To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.

Going to car racing school was phenomenal.

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

High school was interesting. For the most part, I quite enjoyed it. But everyone is trying to find their footing, and school can be a tough environment. Kids can be cruel to each other. It's quite unforgiving at times.

The teachers who taught me at Dreghorn Primary and Greenwood Academy were fantastic.

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.