Michael Lehmann Quotes

#1. I just can't operate with any direct awareness of the pressures I might be under.

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#2. I love 'Heathers,' and I loved doing that movie. I'm very proud of it, so if it gets brought up, I'm happy.

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#3. I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, 'Make a sequel to 'Heathers',' I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that's a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility.

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#4. I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.

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#5. I can't tell you how hard it is to make a dark-humored movie in Hollywood.

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#6. I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.

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#7. A movie as specific as 'Heathers,' which took place in a specific time and specific place and in which many of the characters got killed off, I never thought it made sense to see a sequel.

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#8. I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

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#9. When I started 'Hudson Hawk,' I realized I was dealing with a strong-willed producer, a strong-willed actor, and, at times, a strong-willed studio, and I was the junior partner in all of this - the guy who hadn't proven anything in terms of box-office success.

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#10. My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

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#11. You want the actor to be happy with the movie. You really want the actor to think they did a good job and all that.

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#12. People always say, 'Why don't you make more movies like 'Heathers'?' And I say, 'I've been trying for 20 years.'

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#13. I'm not a macho guy. I'm very soft-spoken on the set. But I'm not really intimidated by the process of making movies.

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#14. I can't make a choice to do a movie because people will go see it. People look at what a movie becomes and decide if they'll see it.

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#15. In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.

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#16. I don't like sequels at all. If the movie's good the first time, why bother?

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