Cry Baby Cry!

Accroding to People

With New Moon ready to rise in theaters
Nov. 20, director Chris Weitz wants it known: He is going to try to make you
cry. "We've tried our best to deliver on the romantic scenes in the film, and I
would like to be able to produce more tears than any movie before, if possible,"
Weitz told PEOPLE at the Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards Monday of
capturing moments in the Twilight saga's love triangle. "If we could only weigh
them with some kind of cubic tear measure!"
Weitz, who took over the
directing reigns from Catherine
Hardwicke, admits delivering the passion, thrills and heartache in the hotly
anticipated sequel wasn't easily done. "I've handled it very badly, because I'm
extremely envious of Rob [Pattinson] and Taylor [Lautner]," he said laughing.
"What I've realized is that they have a very tough job – not just playing the
characters that they play, but living lives that are now very much under
scrutiny all the time."He adds, the intense level of attention – including
speculation about cast members' love lives – was challenging for everyone. "To
be honest, even making the movie is under a tremendous amount of scrutiny now,
so that when the cast went back to Vancouver there were cameras everywhere," he
said. "Everyone knows where every set is going to be. It goes with the Internet
and all the information is out there all the time, and whenever one of them is
spotted it's immediately Twittered."
Director said he had to resort to some
extreme measures to avoid the prying eyes of paparazzi and fans while on
location. "I can remember trying to barricade some windows by turning tables
over so that they couldn't look in at a cast dinner that they we were having,"
he admitted. Nevetheless, Weitz thinks the New Moon stars are gracefully dealing
with the attention. "I think that they handle it very well really. They're smart
kids – I can say that because I'm 40 – and they've got good heads on their
shoulders. So they'll be all right." As for himself? "The moment this film is
out I go away because no one really knows what I look like," he said. "At least
that's my plan!"

Thanks to People!