Kristen Stewart Has Always Been Ready to Direct

Kristen Stewart has been talking about directing as long as she's been acting. Not many people encouraged it.

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CANNES, France — Kristen Stewart has been talking about directing as long as she's been acting. Not many people encouraged it.

"I spoke to other actors when I was really little because I was always like: 'I want to direct movies!'" Stewart recalls. "I was fully set down by several people who were like, 'Why?' and 'No.' It's such a fallacy that you need to have an unbelievable tool kit or some kind of credential. It really is if you have something to say, then a movie can fall out of you very elegantly."

You wouldn't necessarily say that Stewart's feature directing debut, "The Chronology of Water," elegantly fell out of her at the Cannes Film Festival. She arrived in Cannes after a frantic rush to complete the film, an adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch's 2011 memoir, starring Imogen Poots. Sitting on a balcony overlooking the Croisette, Stewart says she finished the film "30 seconds before I got on an airplane."