Bret Easton Ellis

The writing teachers were there.

I liked the fact that you could take these small tutorials with them, which meant three to four kids per course.

So it all looked really good.

And also the campus was beautiful.

It was up in the hills of Vermont, and it was this kind of.

angelic, idyllic place to go to college.

And I wanted to get just more away from L.A.

I didn't want to.

My dad wanted me to go to USC and pursue business school.

And because he was worried, he thought, how are you going to make it as a writer?

And he had a point.

I understand where his fear came from.

But when you're 18, you just don't think like that.

Well, you know, it's funny.

You only hear from writers who've made it and musicians who've made it and comedians who've made it whose parents didn't want them.

There could be a 7,000-hour documentary about the parents that said, don't be a comedian and don't be a writer and don't start a band who are fucking right.

Most of them are right.

It's funny because we only hear the success stories because no one wants to hear from the guy who's working at Costco when he should have listened to his dad and went to USC.

But who are the parents who actually do encourage their kids to pursue a life in the arts?

I mean –