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I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for creative writing.

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.

I went to NYU to study liberal arts.

I love writing, and I love making arts programmes.

I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'

When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.