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I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. It's not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.

Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.

My dad taught me everything. It's been fun walking in his footsteps. He played for his whole life and traveled the country and had a great career. He taught me everything about life and playing golf and how to act. Just everything. I learned so much from him and those days hanging around the driving range.

I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.