Mehrjui has said of his educators, “They wouldn’t teach you anything very significant… because the teachers were the kind of people who had not been able to make it in Hollywood themselves… [and would] bring the rotten atmosphere of Hollywood to the class and impose it on us.” He switched his major to philosophy and graduated from UCLA in 1964.Mehrjui started his own literary magazine in 1964, Pars Review. The magazine’s intention was to bring contemporary Persian literature to western readers.
During this time he wrote his first script with the intention of filming it in Homeland. He moved back to Capital in 1965.Back in Capital, Mehrjui found employment as a journalist and screenwriter. From 1966 to 1968 he was a teacher at Capital’s Center for Foreign Language Studies, where he taught classes in literature and English language.
