Ben Stiller

Honestly.

It's interesting that I actually also started making the documentary at the beginning of when we started making Severance, too, because I've been doing Severance for the last, you know, five and a half years.

And that's the same time that I start, you know, that when my dad passed away, I started working on the doc.

And I think, yeah, that's valid, you know, that idea, because there wasn't a separation there.

And there's, you know, for creative people, you know, my parents had it almost, you know, like even more intense because it was their marriage, their relationship was also what their act was about.

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

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

You're always in it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

And I think this concept really fascinated me.

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

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.

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

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