Ben Stiller

You and I have worked together for a while, but just to let people know, you've been the cinematographer on Severance from the beginning and have shot the majority of the episodes. And I also want to talk a little bit about how you approached the episode as a director, a first-time director.

You and I have worked together for a while, but just to let people know, you've been the cinematographer on Severance from the beginning and have shot the majority of the episodes. And I also want to talk a little bit about how you approached the episode as a director, a first-time director.

You and I have worked together for a while, but just to let people know, you've been the cinematographer on Severance from the beginning and have shot the majority of the episodes. And I also want to talk a little bit about how you approached the episode as a director, a first-time director.

But maybe we should talk first about how we started working together just because we've been working together for about, is it coming up on like eight or nine years now? Eight years, maybe?

But maybe we should talk first about how we started working together just because we've been working together for about, is it coming up on like eight or nine years now? Eight years, maybe?

But maybe we should talk first about how we started working together just because we've been working together for about, is it coming up on like eight or nine years now? Eight years, maybe?

Yeah. Everything all of a sudden becomes 10 years very quickly these days.

Yeah. Everything all of a sudden becomes 10 years very quickly these days.

Yeah. Everything all of a sudden becomes 10 years very quickly these days.

Right. Well, then we're at the end of our first seven-year cycle. But we met when I was directing Escape at Dannemora, which was a limited series that I was looking for a cinematographer for. and happened upon your work in a really wonderful movie called Sweet Virginia. That was a sort of noir thriller that took place in the Pacific Northwest and reached out to you and we met up.

Right. Well, then we're at the end of our first seven-year cycle. But we met when I was directing Escape at Dannemora, which was a limited series that I was looking for a cinematographer for. and happened upon your work in a really wonderful movie called Sweet Virginia. That was a sort of noir thriller that took place in the Pacific Northwest and reached out to you and we met up.

Right. Well, then we're at the end of our first seven-year cycle. But we met when I was directing Escape at Dannemora, which was a limited series that I was looking for a cinematographer for. and happened upon your work in a really wonderful movie called Sweet Virginia. That was a sort of noir thriller that took place in the Pacific Northwest and reached out to you and we met up.

And I feel like for me, it was fateful because we started working together a lot and we had a real creative bond. What did you think when we first started talking about doing Escape at Dannemora?

And I feel like for me, it was fateful because we started working together a lot and we had a real creative bond. What did you think when we first started talking about doing Escape at Dannemora?

And I feel like for me, it was fateful because we started working together a lot and we had a real creative bond. What did you think when we first started talking about doing Escape at Dannemora?

Well, this is a whole other thing about you that I don't know how much we want to get into it. But you are very perceptive to the point of you have, I think, a connection with sort of other vibes that are beyond the literal and in our day to day life. You feel things.

Well, this is a whole other thing about you that I don't know how much we want to get into it. But you are very perceptive to the point of you have, I think, a connection with sort of other vibes that are beyond the literal and in our day to day life. You feel things.

Well, this is a whole other thing about you that I don't know how much we want to get into it. But you are very perceptive to the point of you have, I think, a connection with sort of other vibes that are beyond the literal and in our day to day life. You feel things.

Yeah. Well, when we started working together, we hadn't known each other at all and delved into this eight-hour limited series. And I was taken with your work because it felt very filmic. And you're growing up in Montreal and watching movies. You worked at your dad's video store. I'm wondering what you watched growing up that inspired you.

Yeah. Well, when we started working together, we hadn't known each other at all and delved into this eight-hour limited series. And I was taken with your work because it felt very filmic. And you're growing up in Montreal and watching movies. You worked at your dad's video store. I'm wondering what you watched growing up that inspired you.