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Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor!
I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.
Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.
No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.
While I wouldn't wish being teased on anyone, I think it eventually leads to a kind of solidarity in adult life. The few people I know who weren't picked on in school are people I find I can't relate to on much more than a surface level. There's a sensitivity that comes with feeling like an outsider at some point in your life.