I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was planning on going to Yale to theater school.
But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there.
I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.
Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.
So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale.
I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone.
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.