I was actually away in Africa doing ‘Generation Kill’ while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions: I was so lucky that I came back from Africa just in time and the actor who was playing Emmett fell through, lucky for me!
Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twilight would, in a new age, become the leading poet of the English-speaking world. None have disputed the claim of William Butler Yeats to that title.
You can relax more when you’re playing a silly character than when you’re playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the ‘Twilight’ cast. He’s the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn’t him!
If you look at the least effective of the ‘Twilight’ movies, it was when they brought in an action-movie director instead of a director who was really a good storyteller. And you can tell the difference.
I read bits and pieces of ‘Twilight’ as we were making it.
My daughter was born just after the making of ‘Twilight.’
I’m looking forward to the ‘Twilight Zone’ from Jordan Peele… if anyone’s gonna reboot the ‘Twilight Zone,’ then there’s the man to do it.
When we were filming ‘Twilight,’ we didn’t expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy. And then it kinda just blew into this whole other world.
