"What we create needs to come from the things that we want. We need to design our own desire instead of being told how the fuck to feel by movies that are never changing and always the same. I have figuratively broken teeth learning that shoving into fear instead of backing away from it is key. I try to let this seep into how I spend literally all my time."
"I found that battle cry within myself, knowing that it is an echo of centuries and centuries of women that have needed to pick each other up. A real core-base activation piece for me was reading The Chronology of Water when I was a lot younger, in a time where I was in service of other people's stories as an actor."
"Even though I've been lucky enough to make work that feels like it has a sense of freedom, I've worked in an industry for a long time that definitely does not uplift. There are reasons why people have a hard time articulating certain things. There's no room for it, or it's not encouraged, or it's steeped in shame or embarrassment. It's tough to be anyone trying to find their own voice."
Kristen Stewart began acting at nine and was a teenager during the Twilight films. She made her feature directing and writing debut with an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir The Chronology of Water. She married longtime girlfriend Dylan Meyer in April. She asserts that creative work must originate from personal desire and calls for designing desire rather than accepting formulaic emotional cues from unchanging movies. She describes learning to push into fear rather than retreat, and strives to let that approach guide her daily life. She cites reading The Chronology of Water as formative, critiques an industry that often fails to uplift, and credits Pablo Larraín with urging that no passion is darkness and that making a movie is an act of love.
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