Editing David Koepp (section)

==Early life and education==
Koepp was born in [[Pewaukee, Wisconsin]], as the youngest of four children, to Donald Koepp, who owned a [[Billboard (advertising)|billboard]] company,<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19900126&id=UGcaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BywEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3011,2666677] {{dead link|date=November 2017}}</ref> and a family therapist mother.<ref name="LATimes1994" /> While attending [[Kettle Moraine High School]] in [[Wales, Wisconsin]], he worked evenings and weekends at the [[McDonald's]] restaurant in [[Delafield, Wisconsin|Delafield]].{{cn|date=May 2023}} Originally studying to become an actor, first at the [[University of Minnesota]] for a year and afterwards at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] for two years, he enrolled in the film school of the [[University of California, Los Angeles]], in 1984.<ref name="LATimes1994" /><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-tJPVDQ2ToUC&q=first+year+of+college |title=Backstory 5: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1990s |date=2009 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |isbn=9780520945470 |editor1-last=McGilligan |editor1-first=Patrick |location=Berkeley, California |pages=74–76 |chapter=David Koepp Sincerity |quote=[Koepp:] "I spent my first year of college at the University of Minnesota. [...] I transferred to Madison, still wanting to become an actor. I spent two years in Madison [...]." |access-date=May 13, 2023 |quote-page=74}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Owen |first1=David |title=David Koepp Is a Very Nice Screenwriter, Really |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/03/21/david-koepp-is-a-very-nice-screenwriter-really |access-date=May 13, 2023 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=March 21, 1994 |quote=Koepp said, "[...] I wanted to be an actor, and I went to college in Madison for a couple of years, to do acting, [...] then I decided I wanted to write movies, so I transferred to the film school at U.C.L.A.."}}</ref> He graduated with a bachelor's degree in film from UCLA in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hueso |first1=Noela |title=Alumnus David Koepp writes big stories for the big (and small) screen |url=https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/qa-alumnus-screenwriter-david-koepp |website=UCLA Newsroom |access-date=May 13, 2023 |date=February 3, 2022}}</ref>