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Kristen's interview with The Showbiz 411 at Cannes
Watch more of Kristen's interview in these clips HERE
Transcript/Article of above link:
The star of "Twilight" Kristen Stewart was in Cannes on Friday (May 23) for the screening of Palme d'Or contender "Clouds of Sils Maria" and in an interview with Reuters Television on Saturday (May 24) she opened up about her views on money, fame and the Hollywood lifestyle.
In her latest movie, which also stars Cannes regular Juliette Binoche and "Kick-Ass" actress Chloe Grace Moretz, Stewart plays the personal assistant of Binoche's character Maria Enders who is an actress having problems with growing old and how the film industry reacts to her aging.
In light of her worldwide fame after starring in "Twilight" Stewart found it particularly interesting to play a role that had her commenting on Hollywood from an outsider's perspective. "It happened to be the perfect project timing wise. Just coincidentally I think the fact, you know, just my experience with my career how it's gone, you know, "Twilight" blew up, I'm extremely famous, it's interesting for me to play an actresses' assistant who then comments on that world, and how it works and how superficial it can be," said the 24 year-old.
Stewart's own frustrations with certain aspects of the Hollywood lifestyle were apparent when she revealed her view that moviemaking has become a "product oriented business" focused on making money which can have a negative effect on the overall quality of a film. "It could be so easy to be enticed by people kind of wanting to step in and tell you how to do things and, 'Ooh, you should do this'. And people wanna make...especially in the States it's about money. People make movies. It's turned into such a product oriented business that it kinda sucks because if we're gonna make...the work that we make will not be as good because we're always concerned about the end result rather than being motivated by the desire to do it."
Stewart praised Cannes' less market oriented focus and expressed her belief that there can sometimes be more freedom in moviemaking in Europe. "It's not absent in the States, but it's not prevalent to feel free within the film industry, to feel like you can say what you wanna say not with any concern about like how people are gonna react to it, whether you're gonna piss them off or whether you're gonna move...you're trying to move yourself. If you're moved, then other people will be moved. So, here, it seems like people are less afraid because again they're doing it for themselves. It's for the art of it, it's not to market things. It's just...it's a good feeling."
It seems clear from her words that Stewart values the artistic quality of filmmaking and ultimately has a high regard for the importance of movies and the great variety of messages they can put across to the viewer.
"You know, to make a movie is so ridiculous. We're going to go film each other pretending to be other people so other people can watch us pretending to be other people? It's insane. But if it's worth it and it's saying something like it can be...it can be transcendentally important." Although Stewart has made a significant range of movies since "Twilight", including the drama "Camp X-Ray" (2014) and "Welcome to the Rileys" (2010) in which she starred opposite James Gandolfini as a 16 year-old stripper, the actress will mostly be associated with her part in the vampire movies as Bella Swan. But she insists she is not making such a diverse range of films to change people's views of her.
"I don't do what I do to sort of like control perception or make people think a certain way about me. That would be traipsing all over the experience of making any film," she said. Stewart then went on to say she could not understand how actors can navigate a career simply doing it for other people. "It's just so ass-backwards to me. I don't know how people do that. I don't know how people tactfully traverse their careers. I don't know how they choose, 'Well, this is a different side of me people have not seen and so I will present that to them now'. It's like why are you doing this for other people? You should be doing it for yourself. And so I've functioned from that position since I started and therefore I really don't care about all that."
During her interview with Reuters Television Stewart also revealed she has ambitions outside of acting and has directed a small music video, but she is very aware that any creative project she is involved in, no matter how small it is, will entail a strong degree of critical scrutiny because of her worldwide status.
"I wanna make movies one day, like absolutely I wanna direct movies and I directed this music video and I was like it's just this dinky little thing and it's fun and I'm so happy to do it but it's gonna be a big deal no matter what. Even if I shoot it on a Polaroid camera people will be like, 'What did she do? Let's take a look'. It's like how about you give me a second to figure it out? So, yeah, that's not something to complain about. It's incredible that I can do that. It's just kind of weird. It's different," said the actress.
"Clouds of Sils Maria" failed to grab the Palme d'Or at Cannes' closing ceremony on Saturday (May 24) as the award went to "Winter Sleep", which was directed by Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Stewart's next projects include the Tim Blake Nelson movie "Anesthesia" and she will also be co-starring with Cannes' Best Actress award winner Julianne Moore in "Still Alice" which is currently due to be released in 2015.
Source Additional clip link via @StewartQuotes
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
More behind-the-scenes photos of Kristen on 'Sage & the Saints' music video
Thursday, May 15, 2014
New/old photos of Kristen in Nashville
Short Mountain Distillery We hosted Kristen Stewart for her directorial debut at the distillery. We are proud to announce the video is finally done and will be released shortly. — at Short Mountain Distillery.
Actress Kristen Stewart and musician Sage Galesi of Sage And The Saints, visited our distillery recently to film a music video. It was obviously a lot of fun. Y'all come on back now ya hear?
Actress Kristen Stewart holds a baby lamb Short Mountain Distillery while making her directorial debut.
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More BTS photos from the music video shoot can be found here.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Sage + The Saints's 'Take Me To The South' music video preview + interview & BTS photos
The full music video will be released on May 28.
To be at all familiar with Kristen Stewart — she had a small role in some vampire movies, maybe you've seen them — is to know that she's not particularly comfortable in the spotlight. She's a kinetic speaker, elliptical and often self-deprecating, so perhaps it's no surprise that at 24, she's already making the move to the other side of the camera. As part of its ongoing Blank Check Series, the denim/lifestyle brand Buffalo David Bitton offered Stewart a modest-but-undisclosed amount of money to "embark on a new creative journey," which the Twilight star used to co-direct a music video for her friend Sage Galesi of the country-rock outfit Sage + the Saints.
"I've been saying I want to direct movies since I was 10 years old," says Stewart, on the phone from somewhere in New Orleans, where she is currently filming the action comedy American Ultra. "And then I started making movies and working with such incredible people that I realized what I was up against. So it was like, no way, now I'm gonna get more attention than I ever should just because of who I am. Basically, I'm grateful to Sage, because she was like, ‘I have this little thing, no one could tell the story better than you. . .just do it and stop being such a pussy.'"
So Stewart, along with co-director David Ethan Shapiro of Starlight Studios, cinematographer/editor James Gallagher, and some mutual friends, decamped to Tennessee for five days in February to shoot the video for "Take Me to the South," a song off of the Saints' 2013 EP I Will Lie. (Galesi just launched a PledgeMusic drive to help fund a full-length album.) Filming in and around the L.A. songwriter's adopted hometown of Nashville, Stewart and Co. shot documentary-style footage of Galesi performing at the High Watt, playing downtown street corners and goofing off with pals in the back of a pickup truck. "We wanted it to feel like a glimpse of her life," explains Stewart. "And that's fucking hard. As soon as you start rolling, everyone turns into deer in the headlights."
The video for "Take Me to the South" premieres later this month. In the meantime, Stewart, along with Galesi and Shapiro, was enthusiastic to discuss her directorial debut via conference call: "It's so much nicer doing interviews as not what I usually am."
Your Twilight costar Nikki Reed produced a video for a song called "Edie Sedgwick" from Sage's solo days, right?
That's how we met, yeah, It was on the set of a movie in Vancouver seven years ago, and then we became really good friends.
The video has an improvised, homespun feel. What, if any, narrative did you come up with?
Sage lived all of this; we fabricated nothing. I wanted the video to feel really captured and found rather than set-up and executed. The story is that she's insanely courageous to be this kid from L.A. who doesn't hang out with anyone that listens to country music — and suddenly she realizes she wants to be a country star, and drives to Nashville by herself to see if she can meet people and be in a band. Then she did it all. It was so easy, once she presented me with the idea. I was like, well, that's what the video is. It's done. Basically, I didn't want it to feel…I mean, nobody wants their shit to be pretentious, but like, I didn't want it to seem like we wanted to be cool at all. Country music's not cool. It's truthful and it's sweet.
Are you a fan of country?
No. This is what's so funny. This is something that Sage and I have not shared, and most everything in our friendship is. . .we have so much in common. So I was like: What? You want to do a country song?
Did you do anything to prepare?
Well, I sat down and watched a lot of country videos before we started doing this. I just didn't really see anything that wasn't trying so fucking hard to be something. But I need to specify something about what I just said: I wasn't talking about all country music. The country music that Sage is playing — she's not trying to be cool. And the story was so clearly in front of us, I didn't need to look elsewhere to get inspired. Also, you go to Nashville and everyone eats, breathes and sleeps country music, [so] being there was this transformative thing. All of our friends were, like, "Hey baby, hey darlin', how you doing?" It's a really contagious and super-welcoming place.
What was the primary challenge you faced as a first-time director?
It's such a different pressure than the one that I'm used to when I act. It's this very consistent strain that never lets up. Whereas with acting, there's small bursts. . .you alleviate bits of tension for the camera and then you go off and, I don't know, wait to stress out again. But there wasn't one second that I wasn't sitting with my head in my hands. It's your responsibility to hold this thing together, and I was always concerned I was missing something. Missed opportunities are the most gut-wrenching, painful, nauseating thing. As an actor, your job is to lose yourself in the moment. Losing yourself is the last thing you want to do as a director, so it goes against my instinct. I had to harness my energy rather than let it explode all over the set.
Sage and David, how would you describe Kristen's technique?
Shapiro: She's very passionate. She either loves something or she hates it.
Galesi: She was a natural. She was good at not over-directing, but making sure that certain beats were captured, and telling me which moments they were going for. Being friends just makes it easier, because she could tell me something very easily.
Stewart: I felt so funny making Sage do things more than once. It was a strange experience, because I wanted to never have to do that. But there were a couple of moments where I made her do something 10 times. Most of the time it felt like we were doing a documentary, but that's when it felt like a movie.
Like in which scene?
Stewart: We'd done so many takes of this one shot of her looking over her shoulder and it felt planned, like she was on cue. But then I caught her standing backstage for a show, looking at this guy, and she doesn't necessarily have a crush on this dude. . .
Galesi: Let's make it very clear that I do not have a crush on that guy!
Stewart: Yes, that's one thing we made up. Anyway, basically she's standing there watching this dude play, and he just so represents everything that makes Nashville so different to anything we grew up with in Los Angeles — because he's so goddamned country and I just loved pointing a camera at him. I caught her looking at him, and it's very silhouette-y, so you're straining to see it more, which I really love, because she's having this private moment. And I was like: "Hey, Sage, what are you doing? You're being so obvious." She's like, "What? No!" Cut. We got it.
You've worked with an impressive list of actors and directors: David Fincher, Sean Penn, Jodie Foster. Is there anybody you've learned a lot from or tried to channel here?
I mean, specifically, no, but absolutely everything that I've done has changed my every desire. It sounds ridiculous naming these people but [On the Road director] Walter Salles and [Into the Wild's] Sean Penn work the same way I would like to work. It's about being able to always, always, always sniff out bullshit and refuse to eat it. You honor whatever you're working on so much that to make a mockery of it would be so principally wrong. That's the feeling those guys have. I feel so safe with them as an actor, because I know for a fact that I can try things and fully let go and they will never allow me to do anything untrue. I definitely want to explore this avenue of my life, and that's the way that I would definitely strive to do it.
Do you have any plans to direct any future projects?
I have been working an insane amount recently. I definitely need to take a break and reorient my mind, because if I'm going to put that much time in, it needs to be something I'd die for. There's a couple of shorts that I've written that I want to do really badly. I'll probably move forward and fuck up a few times. Typically you're allowed to throw stuff at a wall and see what sticks. You don't have people staring at it, going, "K-Stew's making a movie!" It's embarrassing. I have to figure out who I want to work with. This video is four of us — me, Sage, David and James — collaborating, and that's not me not wanting to say I directed something. It's people, for lack of a better word, "vibing." A director is only as good as the people they work with. I gotta figure out who my boys are!
Source “Working with Sage + The Saints for my directorial debut was a fantastic and rewarding experience,” Kristen said. “I’m extremely proud of what I and my co-creators at Starlight Studios have accomplished, and grateful for the Buffalo Blank Check Series for facilitating our creativity and artistic vision.”
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Friday, February 21, 2014
New fan photo of Kristen in Nashville
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Fan photos at 'The High Watt' in Nashville + details on Kristen's directing debut for 'Sage and the Saints' music video
Kristen is in the audience, in the far back near the window & under the light globe.
jessicalynnstagram Day 261 (part II): stumbled into being part of a random music video shoot, directed by Kristin Stewart. Nashville is a weird place.
lizthurman Tonight I met #KristenStewart and she was super cool and super sweet! #Sage+TheSaints.
@AllOrNothingKR Pic of Kristen between sets at Sage & The Saints. She was hard at work & the entire gang was there. <3 her. Went well! She was really into it. You could tell she was passionate about it. She was always behind the camera.
@AllOrNothingKR Pic of Kristen between sets at Sage & The Saints. She was hard at work & the entire gang was there. <3 her. Went well! She was really into it. You could tell she was passionate about it. She was always behind the camera.
"Kristen Stewart directing my friends music vid"
Tumbleweed Company Nashville! Come on out to The High Watt tonight at 830 for a night of great music with our set kicking it off, then Anthony Adams, Bones Owens and Sage + The Saints.. Then catch us as Sage's backing band in her music video shoot that Kristen Stewart is directing!
Sage + The Saints has a show on 02/18/2014 at 08:00 PM @ The High... in Nashville, TN http://t.co/oAsQIAGQHX #concert
— Sage (@SageTheSaints) February 17, 2014
FREEEEEEEE show for our new music video at the High Watt in Nash 2/18 with @TumbleweedCo @BonesOwens & Anthony Adams show starts 8:30
— Sage (@SageTheSaints) February 17, 2014
Production Company behind the music video shoot is Starlight Studios.
It appears that some of the music video was shot in LA on February 15. Thanks to Itsoktobeyou.org. More details: (Facebook Twitter)
The music video is for the band Sage and the Saints headed by one of Kristen's friends, Sage Galesi. More details: (Twitter Facebook Instagram)
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