Kristen Stewart: "I can only relate to that as Bella can because she is still human. I think that's an interesting question for any one of the vampires because they actually [deal with that]. The way that I consider immortality from both my perspective as Kristen and my perspective as Bella is that it's so completely unknown, but that given the right motivating factor I'd be willing to explore it. She's very willing to acknowledge that she doesn't know but that she's willing to give it a chance because of Edward, because she's willing to sacrifice anything for him, basically."
"A big thing for Bella is change. She's so terrified of change because she's been thrust into this world. It's not a necessarily healthy way of looking at things because nothing is going away. I should be at work right now talking to Chris. This is ridiculous. Basically, if you're facing something that is completely unknown but you're willing to take everything that is hard about it because of what you might get, that's hope. That's people. That's why we get up every day. Immortality is almost more scary in our story than mortality. To live forever seems on the surface like a really cool thing, but in our story it's terrifying. And in our story that means taking your soul - or at least it does to Edward. Like the lines of personal belief and literally theology and your faith, what you think is going to happen after you die, these are things that we think about incessantly in the movie and things that Edward and Bella even argue about. I know that was really everywhere, but there you go."
How did you balance playing Bella and then playing a character like Joan Jett?
Kristen Stewart: "I can only play characters that I feel like are real people and in a complete way and in such a whole way that if I fake any aspect of it, I will have failed them and literally they're slaughtered and they don't get… It's like these characters, they don't exist anymore unless I do it. So in terms of approaching parts, thank God I don't have to do that. It just happens. Joan...I got to know Joan not only as her now but I feel like through footage and just through the script and the story, everything, I feel like I got to know who she was in such a whole way that it's not about imitating, even though I was really concerned about details being right, gestures and stuff. I really wanted to do a good impersonation, but I also didn't want it to be imitation. I wanted it to be natural."
"Playing Joan Jett had nothing to do with Bella. It was a small period of time that I had to do it, but it was an opportunity that I jumped on and it was going to go away [if I hadn't]. I would've liked more time but, like I said about walking on set, seeing all the characters and Rob and Taylor, it's instantly easy to get right back into the right mindset. That's vague, but I what I do is so vague. Literally, what I do is so oddly ambiguous."
You talked about Bella being a good role model for young girls, and yet she seems willing to sacrifice everything for Edward. She gets depressed about a love affair that goes flat and becomes an adrenaline junkie who's trying to kill herself in a way. Are you worried about 12 or 13 year old girls watching this and getting a terrible idea of what's that like?
Kristen Stewart: "It's a very extreme story. I think people who take to this story need to be a little bit more mature than that. I think the only reason that they take to it is because they are. The only way that I can justify that, and maybe I'm an immature girl as well, I really feel like if you feel like you need to do it, then you need to do it. 'It' being anything. Then after you're told that you've made a mistake and that you're wrong, if you're willing to say that you made a mistake and that you were wrong and that you're going to try the next thing, there's nothing to be ashamed of there at all. Be extreme. Go for it. I think that's the point. I know this is a movie about immortality, but you live once. I'm also not preaching to anybody. I'm just standing behind the story. That's what I think."
