Bateman says that watching Landon inspired him to become a director Jason Bateman is remembering his earliest inspiration: Michael Landon. On the Feb. 24 episode of SiriusXM's Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast,

The actor praised his late costar's "ease with people, with the process, with the business, with just Joe on the street." Jason Bateman has only lovely things to say about his legendary Little House on the Prairie costar,

He made us laugh as Michael Bluth in Arrested Development for five seasons, brought the drama as Marty Byrde in Netflix’s Ozark, lent his voice to a favorite family flick as Nick Wilde in Disney’s Zootopia and most recently,