Jason Bateman

Or was that kind of a tough transition into being a showrunner?

He's like, you guys are real geniuses.

Talk to us about how the directing thing started to come about and where did your confidence start to, when did your confidence start to grow for that?

Like asking for the wheel.

Did you find it... I think most people can read something or watch something, and from the comfort of their couch, the safety of their couch, they can say, oh, I would do this differently or I would do that differently.

And those are nine times out of ten really good ideas.

They're good catches.

They're good fixes.

Right.

But if you give them a blank page or you give them a screen with no image on it or, more pointedly, on a set, standing in front of a bunch of actors and some cameras and a cameraman,

knowing how to create from the ground up, you know, to put this thing into three dimensions.

Like, did you find that, that change in the process from just, from recutting stuff that's in front of you to actually creating it from the ground up on set?

Was that a comfortable thing for you or did that, would that have some growing pains?

Yeah.

What about, so you wrote and directed a film as well, Lucy in the Sky with Natalie Portman.

Was the film experience anything different than basically just a double length episode for you?

And I guess the question behind the question is, is there a desire to do film or do you see it as just simply arbitrarily a different medium that is every bit consistent with what you're doing on television anyway?

and one could argue much more sort of creative control on television.

I mean, he's all right.

He's all right.