Kristen Stewart Says Filmmaking Is In “Capitalist Hell”: “It’s Too Hard To Make Movies Right Now That Aren’t Blockbuster-y, Proven Equations”

Key Highlights

• “I’m so appreciative of every union; trust me, we would not survive without them.
• But some of the terms and some of the rules and some of the structures we’ve set up have created unbelievable barriers for artists to express themselves.
• I think that without being unfaithful, ungrateful, I think we need a little work-around.
• I think having it be so impossible for people to tell stories, and having it be such an exclusive and rarified, novel position to find yourself doing so, is capitalist hell, and it hates women, and it hates marginalized voices, and it’s racist, and I think that we need to figure out a way to make it easier to speak to each other in cinematic terms.” Watch on Deadline She continued, “It’s too hard to make movies right now that aren’t blockbuster-y, whatever, proven equations,” expressing a sentiment that’s been echoed by fellow prominent filmmakers like Steven Soderbergh, Michael Bay and James Cameron.
• “The next movie I wanna make: I want to do it for nothing, I want to make not a dollar, I want it to be a smash hit, do you know what I mean?