Overview

• Stiller reflects that prioritizing work left him less present at home, a realization reinforced by candid feedback from his adult children during interviews for the film.
• He describes his bond with daughter Ella, 23, and son Quinlin, 20, as strong yet complicated and at times strained.
• He says the 2017 separation from Christine Taylor strained the family but ultimately strengthened their relationship after they reunited in 2020.
• Stiller links his own parenting patterns to his childhood with touring parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, acknowledging he repeated dynamics he thought he had avoided.
• Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost premiered at the New York Film Festival and is set for a limited theatrical release on Oct. 17.