Jason Bateman

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.

He's okay.

What was it about that story that you thought lent itself better to feature as opposed to long form in television?

And how do you treat any idea that comes into your head, decide whether to write another book based on that idea or actually this is something that could go into as a limited series or an ongoing or a feature?

Thanks.

You're such an auteur.

Do you even spend any time considering other people's work and adapting that?

I'm not sure what they want to see nowadays.