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When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.

I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write.

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

By the time I went to Yale, I'd been acting for a long time and I was really tired of it. I was restless - and a little bored - and I was really eager to investigate different parts of myself.

I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.'

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

I got accepted at Yale but never went.

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.