Paul Weitz

  • Interviews

Singing for Your Life: Paul Weitz on Adapting and Directing Bel Canto

In Bel Canto Julianne Moore plays celebrated opera diva Roxanne Coss, caught up in the center of a hostage crisis…

6 years ago
  • Directing
  • Interviews

Grandma, What Big Roles You Have: How Paul Weitz Became a Feminist Director

In Grandma, Lily Tomlin does not play your typical grandma. She doesn’t bake cookies or assume a beatific and benign smile…

9 years ago
  • Interviews

Can an “Older Woman” Open a Movie? Lily Tomlin and Patricia Clarkson Steer Grandma and Learning to Drive to Success

“How fabulous that we have two films opening Friday that are driven by women north of 50,” Patricia Clarkson told…

9 years ago