I was packing to go to Columbia University, and they told me that weekend that I got the 'Pitch Perfect.'

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper.

I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years at the National Bureau of Economic Research and to whom I owe a great intellectual debt.

I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.