I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.
I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.
I believe it’s impossible to claim you have taught, when there are students who have not learned. With that commitment, from my first year as an English teacher until my last as UCLA basketball teachercoach, I was determined to make the effort to become the best teacher I could possibly be, not for my sake, but for all those who were placed under my supervision.
Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan. . . and later came to football.
But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr. , both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.
Really, UCLA's a great place as well, but they don't have the kind of environment they have here. The fans here have a passion.
Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings everyday.
I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
Drink deeply from good books.
Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.
Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.
At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.
I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.
The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.
I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.
My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.
I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.
It isn't about what you do, but how you do it
