“I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.”

“I hated school, and dropped out of college. I got picked on a lot in school, and had a lot of trouble making friends.”

“Prison for the crime of puberty—that was how secondary school had seemed, when he really thought back on it.”

“I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.”

“I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?”

“Hell, when I was in high school, a "drive-by shooting" meant somebody had their rear end hanging out a car window!”

“When they were growing up, I was working from morning to night. When I left, they were asleep, when I came back, they were asleep," once he told a magazine. Even when they were young, he couldn't visit their school as Shweta and Abhishek asked him not to visit them to avoid too much commotion”

“I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.”

“I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what’s happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they’re becoming more and more preparatory because that’s what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now.”

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned.”