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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

And they were also raising their kids and they were working at home and doing this creative work.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

It's not like it's a nine to five thing.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

You're always in it.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

You know, you're always thinking like when inspiration hits you, you know, you follow that.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

So or they have to go on the road and, you know, go away for weeks to work, whatever that is.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

So I think that concept of the separation is actually really very interesting to me because it's something I've never had.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

And the idea also of cutting off your memory and your feelings about something is also, I think, something that's really relatable in that everybody wants to do that.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

So the tough thing is, yeah, I think when you're a creative person is that you're never able to

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

really shut it off or you have to learn how to shut it off or to not care about what you're working on in that moment and go hang out with the family.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

And that's something that I think my whole life, yeah, there was never a separation there.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

And I think this concept really fascinated me.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

But the part of it that really I think that I resonated with was the idea of

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

This metaphor, too, of for life, really, you know, the idea of like these people who were severed were working in an office where they didn't know what they were doing, why they were there or who they even were.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

Yet every day they go and do this job and, you know, leave and come back.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

And that to me is kind of, you know, a metaphor for life.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

And that's the part of it that consciously I connected with.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

The other part, I never even thought about that.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

Yeah.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

And that's something that's not even a science fiction, you know, concept, the idea of.

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Ben Stiller On His Parents’ Showbiz Marriage

Oh, absolutely.