I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn't fear anything Robert Pattinson More Quotes by Robert Pattinson More Quotes From Robert Pattinson You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors you want to work with, doing little movies. There are no guarantees. I'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of, if it's my last one. That's how I think about it. Robert Pattinson trying directors thinking I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which everybody says you shouldn't do. It makes you feel like you're not acting, as soon as you have someone who's providing stuff to react to. Robert Pattinson acting animal kids I don't think there is any analysis. I don't think anyone knows why people like [The Twilight]. I don't think even the fans know why they connect with it in the way they do. It's a visceral thing. Robert Pattinson twilight people thinking It's fun to deal with the terror and the huge highs and lows of things. We're still getting massive surprises, every time you have any kind of Twilight-related event or anything. Robert Pattinson events twilight fun I still remember, I think it was with the third movie, when we went to Munich and the entire Olympic stadium was filled with fans, and just to walk in there and do nothing. Robert Pattinson munich fans thinking What is forever? God, I don't know. Hope, I guess. That's a difficult question. Robert Pattinson difficult-questions difficult forever There are too many possibilities, if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that. Robert Pattinson possibility normal being-there I don't know [what things are forever]. Friendship. I can think of lots of things. Robert Pattinson i-can forever thinking It was hilarious [last scene with Edward Cullen] considering we'd spent the entire series filming in the most miserable conditions, and then we end on the beach in the Caribbean filming for two days in the sea. That was fun. We literally did the last shot as the sun was coming up in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. It was a nice way to end it, because they were considering shooting it in the sea in Vancouver, which would not have worked at all. Robert Pattinson nice fun beach The whole first movie [Twilight] was pretty fun. I had never really done a movie like it, when there's such a big cast of people that are around about the same age. Everyone didn't really know what was going to happen with the movie, but there was a good energy. There was something which people were fighting for, in a way. They wanted it to be something special. None of us were really known then, as well. It felt like a big deal, at the time. Robert Pattinson fighting twilight fun People ask me if I'm afraid of getting typecast, but you can't be afraid of that. It's really not up to you. I'm getting other parts that aren't vampires. Robert Pattinson vampire up-to-you people I watch so many movies and I find a lot of them very predictable, and also, a little bit playing it safe. Robert Pattinson playing-it-safe littles watches After the first one [Twilight], people started referring to it as a franchise, but a franchise is a Burger King or a Subway. It's not a movie. The people who start to say it are generally the people who are making money off of it. They love it when something becomes a franchise. But, as an actor, I think it's scary. Robert Pattinson twilight kings thinking I still had the same frustration with trying to play [Edward Cullen], the entire way through, right up until the last shot. It's a strange part because, on the one hand, a lot of the audience projects their idea of Edward[Cullen] onto him. It doesn't matter what he is. They want him to be a certain way. And then, my instincts were to try and play it and to try to find the fallibility in him and the weaknesses. Robert Pattinson frustration play ideas I get a lot more abuse in England. That's just a general English attitude. I did the same thing to famous people. It's just your instinct. Robert Pattinson abuse attitude people I don't even know if Stephenie Meyer could tell you why she was so fixated on this very, very contained story [The Twilight] with obsessive characters. It's just an anomaly. That's a terrible answer. I don't know. Robert Pattinson anomalies twilight character I have very, very specific ideas about how I want to do my work and how I want to be perceived and to the point of ridiculousness sometimes. Robert Pattinson want sometimes ideas I don't even know if Stephenie [Meyer] could tell you why she was so fixated on [Twilight] very, very contained story about these very obsessive characters. It's just an anomaly. Robert Pattinson twilight stories character [Sometimes] I will go through periods where I will think 'Oh maybe I should do a commercial movie' and then I just think, someone gave me a really great piece of advice, someone from my agency weirdly, they said the only clients that are happy are the ones that just do what they want to do. So I just kind of do everything for myself. Robert Pattinson agency advice thinking It's always been strange to me that someone can say they're a vampire fan. I'm not a non-fan, but it's such an unusual thing to be a fan of. That's like saying, "I love zombie movies! I just love 'em! They're my favorite!" That's more of a psychological problem than being an actual fan. Robert Pattinson unusual-things vampire zombie