Education
Lehmann attended Columbia University. Lehmann attended film school at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and graduated in 1985.
Lehmann attended Columbia University. Lehmann attended film school at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and graduated in 1985.
His first job in the film industry was answering phones at Francis Ford Coppola"s American Zoetrope film company. Later he supervised cameras on films that included 1983"s The Outsiders. While at University of Southern California 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 hire him.
Lehmann is probably most noted for directing the black comedy Heathers.
He also directed 40 Days and 40 Nights, The Truth About Cats & Dogs, Hudson Hawk, Meet the Applegates, Airheads and Because I Said Southern Lehmann directed his first television commercial via the Leo Burnett Company in June 1996 for McDonald"son
Lehmann also directs for television, and has worked on the short lived Home Box Office comedy series The Comeback and National Broadcasting Company"s The West Wing. Lehmann has guest directed on The Larry Sanders Show, Watching Ellie and Century City.
Recently, Lehmann has directed episodes of Home Box Office dramas, Big Love and True Blood, as well as Showtime"s Californication.
Lehmann claimed he would never make a sequel to Heathers. He claimed Winona Ryder wanted to do Heathers set in Washington, District of Columbia, but he saw no potential for the project