Michael Lehmann

Michael Stephen Lehmann (born March 30, 1957; San Francisco, Californie) is an American film and television directeur. Lehmann attended Université de Columbia. His first job in the film industry que answering phones at Francis Ford Coppola s American Zoetrope film company. Later he supervised cameras on film that included 1983 s The Outsiders. Lehmann attended film school at USC and diplômé en 1985. While at USC he made a student film, Beaver Gets a Boner, the title of which he believes helped get the attention of film executives who would later location de him. Lehmann is probably le most noted for directing the black comedy de Heather. He also directed 40 Days and 40 Nights, The Truth About Cats & Dogs, Hudson Hawk, Meet the Applegates, Airheads and Because I Said So. Lehmann donc directs for television, and has worked on the short lived HBO comedy series The Comeback and NBC The West Wing. Lehmann has guest directed on The Larry Sanders Show, Regarder Ellie and Century City. Recently, Lehmann has directed episodes of HBO drame, Big Love and True Blood, as well as Showtime's Californication. Lehmann s upcoming film include Your Word Against Mine. At a Q & A session during 2007 s South by Southwest film festival à Austin, au Texas, Lehmann claimed he would never make a sequel to de Heather. He claimed Winona Ryder wanted to do Heather set à Washington, D. C., but he saw no potential for the project.