I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem - Fermat's Last Theorem.
I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.
A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.
I was able to draw a lot from my own childhood, my friends' childhoods as well and my daughters' friends who are like my children as well. They multiply all the time. So you can have everything and say I can get all this done and then late at night one of your kids have a freak out about school or an assignment you end up staying up til 3 in morning helping them through it. Or somebody gets sick or has a crisis.
I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist.
Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children.
I forgot how much I loved going to class, actually. But I also forgot what having school homework feels like: stressful!
I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
