Having just wrapped shooting on another film with “Greenberg” director Noah Baumbach in Brooklyn, Stiller recently met with a reporter in New York to discuss his new trajectory. It’s his fifth time directing a movie (from “Reality Bites” to “Tropic Thunder”), but his first time helming a film that, while funny, isn’t quite a comedy. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” a kind of remake of the 1947 Danny Kaye version, is a big-budget, big-scale shift for the 48-year-old Stiller. Stiller, too, hopes for something a little different for his life: He wants to direct more movies and make films outside of comedies he’s best known for. Since then, Walter Mitty (a mild-mannered man who enlivens a mundane day with a series of fantasies) has been synonymous with daydreaming and flights of imagination. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” starring and directed by Stiller, is adapted from James Thurber’s classic short story that first appeared in The New Yorker in 1939. NEW YORK - Ben Stiller’s commonality with the hero of his new film hasn’t gone unnoticed.
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