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

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.

Shortly after I started working as a doctor, I decided to listen to the voice inside me before it was too late. It was now or never, so I decided to explore acting.

So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.