During an interview with MovieMaker Magazine, director for “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” Chris Weitz reveals his sentiments on the Hollywood system. Most disappointing to him was the experience in 2007 with “The Golden Compass”. He explains, “I really wanted that to be my masterpiece. And by that I don’t mean work of genius, rather the piece that you do that says to your peers that you’re ready to stop being a journeyman and start being an actual craftsman. Unfortunately, the edit was taken from me and whatever chance I had at that was also taken from me, which is kind of sad.”
Weitz debuted on the big screen together with his brother Paul back in 1999 with the hit “American Pie”. Since then he’d took hold of several Hollywood smashes. In the interview he also reveals his unlikely inspiration.
“I love David Lean and I love Kurosawa,” he says. “Every time I refer to those guys, I feel a bit sheepish because they are gods and I am mortal … Those are the guys who I aspire to evoke … Having said that, I don’t consider myself worth mentioning in the same breath.”
His next production after “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” is “The Gardener”. The director views it as his homage to Vittorio De Sica’s “The Bicycle Thief” and his potential masterpiece in the making. He states, “I’m always looking for my last film, where I can put the brush down, and this is the one.”
Interestingly, he discusses his other plans once he decides to call it quits. “You know, it sounds ridiculous, but I’d really like to be a better surfer,” he said. “I’d like to learn to speak Spanish fluently; I’d like to travel around, live in Italy; I’d like to learn kung fu … It’s nice to make movies, but it’s also really hard.”
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