Chris Interview

Chris Weitz did an interview with Boxoffice. He talks all about Twilight.

You can read the interview here.

Here is an excerpt from the interview:

There are so many films about vampires, vampire romances, teenage romances—what is it about Twilight’s love triangle that’s catalyzed this phenomenon?

To me, it has a lot less to do with vampires and werewolves than with readily identifiable emotional situations. Bella has a choice between the loving friend who’s nearby and the distant, unattainable object of her affections. That’s a pretty common scenario, and unfortunately also, so is being dumped. I know I’ve experienced it—pretty much anybody except the incredibly lucky has experienced it—and the supernatural element of things just allows for a degree of wish fulfillment. We can play out these scenarios on a grand scale. When you get broken up with, you’d like to think that if you just did something brave enough, something amazing enough, you could rescue the relationship that’s been broken. And you would like to think that the person who’s left you has left you for your own good against their heart. That’s usually not the case, but in New Moon it happens to be, so that’s a lovely way to fulfill one’s wishes. A great thing that Summit as a studio understands is that there are dark places that the movie has to go in order for it all to work. They’re not afraid of the angst and the sorrow that’s in the book. In a way, the film can be kind of a throwback to weepies as well as very cutting edge in terms of visual effects.

Source: Twilight Examiner

Fansite Fridays: Interview with Chris Weitz (Part 1)

Twilighters Anonymous sent us this audio widget of their interview with New Moon director Chris Weitz (Part 1). They interviewed Chris on their visit to the New Moon set back in April.Thanks for sending us the audio interview Twilighters Anonymous. They have the full transcript of the interview here.

Chris Interview

MTV has another interview with Chris Weitz about New Moon. He talks CGI and Robert Pattinson among other things. Read the entire interview at MTV.

Interview with Chris

CanMag has an interview with Chris Weitz. In the interview he talks all about New Moon. You can read the interview here.

Here is an excerpt from the interview:

Also, this one has werewolves. “Well, we knew very quickly that we wanted it to look like a wolf, just a very, very big one. Once you’ve made that official decision, you have to spend a lot of time on it. We knew what we wanted, so there weren’t concept art renderings that you usually do for monsters and all that kind of thing. You know, very tedious detail stuff like the fur, the muscles, the fat over the muscles, the way the light hits the fur, that stuff takes months. So we had a lot to think about on the wolves and they’ve turned out much more quickly and much better than we thought they would ever be.”

Article on Chris

Rotten Tomatoes has an in depth article on New Moon director Chris Weitz.

They talk about his career and include statements about Chris from Taylor Lautner, Wyck Godfrey, Melissa Rosenberg and Rachelle Lefevre. You can read the entire article here.

Here is what Taylor had to say about Chris:

Taylor Lautner on Weitz: “What I love about Chris is, the set is very calm and we’re just having a lot of fun making the movie. And then you sit back and you look at the results that are happening, and it looks amazing so far. I’m so excited to see it. And you just sit back and see what’s going on, and you’re like, ‘How are we having such an easygoing, relaxed time making this movie, and it’s turning out the way it is?’ At the same time, the conversations with Catherine — she just related to us so well. So does Chris. They’re both talented directors, and I’m thankful that I had the opportunity to work with both of them.”

MTV interview with Chris

MTV has an article and interview with Director Chris Weitz. He talks about New Moon. You can read it here.

In the video below he talks about Taylor Lautner. You know the more interviews I read with Chris the funnier he gets. That guy has a great sense of humor.

Interview with Chris

Nerd Word has an interview with Chris Weitz. It’s called, “12 Minutes 49 Seconds with Chris Weitz, Director of New Moon”. It is from Comic Con. You can read the whole interview here.

This was a little excerpt from it I thought was funny:

It’s like Beatlemania.

That’s the only thing I can think of, the Beatles. You see old footage of that type of thing. It happened in Montepulciano, when we were shooting there. It was like The Birds, but with young girls. You’d turn a corner and there would be one or two or three. And the next time you looked there would be 10, 20, 50, 100.

Statement From Chris about the Volturi Nude Scene?

So remember when Jamie Campbell Bower did an interview with MTV and he talked about the Volturi nude scene. In the article he explained it was a scene where the Volturi were actually in a Roman Bathhouse. Well Twilight Lexicon has the following statement from Director Chris Weitz assuring everyone that Jaime was just being humorous and everyone has their clothes on in New Moon. I didn’t think they were like all nude in the scene, but I was totally digging the whole bath scene with the bad vamps. Jaime is very convincing isn’t he? He acted so serious.

Anyways here is the statement from Chris:

“Dear all,

I would like to put everyone’s mind at rest and let them know that the
Volturi are not naked! Jamie (Campbell-Bower) has what you might call a
dry sense of humor and almost managed to convince me — which is why he’s
such a good actor. Anyway, be assured that, even though we do want the
look of the Volturi to be a bit of a surprise, they are always — as in
the book! — fully clothed.

best,
Chris Weitz

And just because I love his accent and thought he looked adorable in the interview here it is again.