Inside the Sundance Labs: Michael Lehmann on Emotional Breakdowns and Epiphanies

As the director of the seminal high school film Heathers, Michael Lehmann knows a thing or two about navigating a world filled with peer pressure and backstabbing -- just the attributes that make him the perfect creative adviser to talk Hollywood at the Sundance Labs. That isolated, idyllic workshop experience in the wilds of Utah might seem like an entirely alien world to the Hollywood veteran, but he tells Movieline that it's one that provides some of his biggest artistic highs (as well as, on occasion, some emotional lows for the vulnerable, fledgling filmmakers gathered there).