Kristen Stewart Quotes

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.

Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope an audience responds the same way. It's very important to have the electrical circuit made, but I don't have control over how people feel when they flip the switch. So the whole idea of marketing research and test screenings is just foreign to me.

To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.

It's a really weird feeling when you write something and you really know it and then you watch actors come in and do it.

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.

If it were all in the script, why make the film?

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

I have always believed that an artiste needs to respond to a story first. One has to feel it in order to live it.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.

Weirdly, an image of Adrian’s Love painting came back to me. I thought of the jagged red streak, slashing through the blackness, ripping it apart. Staring at Jill and her inconsolable pain, I suddenly understood his art a little bit better.

The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what I'm after, what I'm chasing, and what I'm trying to construct.

There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.