Name: Kristen Stewart Breaks Down Her Career, from Panic Room to Twilight | Vanity Fair
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Art is solace because it comes through you like something happens and all of a sudden you got an idea.

And when those moments strike, it's like religious, like it feels like, Oh, my God, Oh my God, I just got so lucky.

It's a really fortunate, really, really rare thing.

So "The Thirteenth Year" was a movie that my mom was a script supervisor on.

I initially as a little kid, kind of going to set and hang out with the crew.

And I would see other children on set and think like, well, what?

I wanna hang out with you guys all the time.

I wanted to be around that energy before I even knew why that energy was appealing to me.

I'm standing in line at a water fountain.

That's some of my more challenging work, actually.

I loved not having to go home and whatever being a part of this circus of it always really fun.

But then when the movie came out and a couple of kids

at school notice that I was in it for a second.

I don't know whatever like, but it was trippy.

I didn't like the conversations that happened afterwards at school, being like, why?

Jodie Foster's threw me a birthday party when I turned 11 with, like a mariachi band.

I never wanted to leave every time I had to go home because it had been nine hours, I was like, why?

Then it was like, no, it's really, you know, for your welfare,

and I was like, I'm well, thank you. May I stay?

In terms of preparation, you know, you kind of acquire as much information as you possibly can,

and then you kind of hope that it becomes something physical.

But I can never get anything up on its feet until it's the word go,

until It feels like there's like an honor to the moment, and there's a reason why you're doing something is absurd, is pretending to be someone else.

I remember it scared everyone else so much, just thinking like, oh, this is very intense for a little kid to do.

And watching the videos might be traumatizing for someone that age.

And I like broke blood vessels in my eyes.

And like just, I remember being like, what, it's cool.

Now things affect me. I'm like, sensitive.

But when I was little, I was like, I know, no, no big deal.

I mean, we really had to, like, delve into some heavy stuff, and I've turned 11, and that was some formative time.

It was a movie about a little kid who robs a bank to save her dad.

And I was like, gut-wrenchingly obsessed with this.

It was my first starring role. But, even with a tiny little part on a movie,

Everyone is holding this really precarious bowl of water, hoping that not one drop slips and I felt like I would have done anything for the film.

Sean Penn attracted me to "Into the Wild."

Actually, initially I went did table read for him, and I was really little.

I remember thinking like I told him, you know, I'll do anything in a movie, I don't even need to play one of the parts, it's awesome that I got to meet you.

It's awesome that, like I was part of the read-through because that in itself felt like its own animal like it really stood up and was an experience that I remember.

And so he was like, well, which one would you want to play?

And I was like, probably the girl who plays guitar. And, I played for him.

I, like, auditioned for it after this read-through and like, couldn't even face him.

playing Blackbird couldn't sing it. Just speaking of shooting that movie.

It was the first time working with anyone that felt so unstructured and so instinctive.

In terms of capturing the footage, we have like a splinter crew.

Almost everywhere we went, he threw a camera on his shoulder.

Eric Gautier, who's like one of my all-time favorite DPs, also, like, was just running, gunning, like like we didn't know what we're gonna do until we found it.

People talk about that all the time, but it doesn't mean that they actually have the balls to, like, commit to not knowing before they know.

Those few days with Emile and him and Eric made me wanna direct movies, straight up, seeing him in the way that he sort of led this charge, that was unbridled.

When we did "Twilight," I knew that the fan base was big for the book.

There was no way of preparing for the response that it had.

We went to Comic-Con, and there were so many people there like that knew more about the series that I did.

That was kind of the first indication that it was gonna be what it was.

And the idea of doing a sequel at that point for me was absurd.

It was weird for me to all of a sudden be asked the question like,

okay, well, now that we're here, how do we do this, right?

Suddenly the chance is kind of like kick back and go. Well, the best experiences I've had on any project of any kind have been

when you are naturally, instinctively drawn to a person, and there's something that you're both thinking about or meditating on and becomes obsessive and compulsive,

you make a movie because that's all I know.

And so I was at that point, like allowed to pick weird things that nobody believed in because I made a big movie once.

So yeah, it definitely kind of blew my head off.

I thought Em in "Adventure Land" was like just the coolest person, and I was so intimidated by her.

I mean, her name's Em. it's not even Emily.