Jason Bateman

And that was wonderful because she was completely supportive.

It was all about the interior world.

All the things that are so difficult to work on when you're actually a working actor.

Yes, that's what I was telling myself.

No, I thought if I'm going to write plays, I should probably know what it's like to say whatever lines I'm going to write and see if they're sayable up on stage.

And so that was my approach.

And then at some point I was just like, I liked... I'd played sports my whole life and I liked the team aspect of acting and of...

It's just a different game.

It's just a different game.

It's like baseball and basketball, whatever.

It's just, I look at life as a series of games or setups and this was just another game and I knew it had different rules and I knew that I would have to examine different strengths in order to

Yes, it was the emotional aspect of my life which had been neglected because I was in academia which doesn't really prize being volatile.

Yes.

Now that I – when I started writing novels about 10 years ago now,

And, you know, people... I go on Goodreads and I'll read people's suggestions.

Oh, you will?

Stupidly, yeah.

But people... I will...

I will be accused of showing off my learning when in fact I don't write with any books around.

It's all in my head.