Michael Lehmann
Michael Stephen Lehmann (born March 30, 1957) is an American film and television director.

Early life and education
In 1978, Lehmann graduated from Columbia University.

Career 
Lehmann's 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. Lehmann attended film school at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and graduated in 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 hire him.

A short film by Lehmann, titled "Ed's Secret Life (An Unauthorized Biography)", was shown on Saturday Night Live. Purportedly about Mister Ed's post-career life, William Schallert, Mick Fleetwood, and Heather Locklear appeared in it.

Lehmann is most known 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 So.

Lehmann directed his first television commercial through the Leo Burnett Company in June 1996 for McDonald's. Lehmann also directs for television, and has worked on the short lived HBO comedy series The Comeback and NBC's The West Wing. Lehmann has guest directed on The Larry Sanders Show, Watching Ellie and Century City. Recently, Lehmann has directed episodes of HBO dramas,  Big Love and True Blood, as well as Showtime's Californication and White Famous, the Amazon.com series Betas, FX's American Horror Story and Snowfall, Hulu's Veronica Mars, and Paramount Network's 68 Whiskey.

Lehmann claimed he would never make a sequel to Heathers. He claimed Winona Ryder wanted to do Heathers set in Washington, D.C., but he saw no potential for the project.

Partial filmography
 Heathers (1988)
 Meet the Applegates (1990)
 Hudson Hawk (1991)
 Airheads (1994)
 The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)
 My Giant (1998)
 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
 Flakes (2007)
 Because I Said So (2007)