Here are some quotes from the Robert Pattinson Vanity Fair interview in their December 2009 issue.

Chris Weitz on the performances delivered by Rob and Kristen in New Moon:

“There’s every reason for a young actor to phone it in on a franchise where the first movie has done incredibly well,” says New Moon director Chris Weitz. “But he and Kristen take it really, really seriously and don’t want to phone it in.  They want to find some way to make these  characters believable, credible to themselves and to the audience.”

On his modeling career:

“I was such a terrible model,” he says. “I was really tall but still looked like a six-year-old.”

Catherine Hardwicke on how she discovered Rob as a possibility for Edward:

I said, ‘There have to be British actors that we don’t know about that are this guy, who can do a great American accent.’ I said, ‘Do me a favor. Got to IMDb and look at every young actor, from age 15 to 25, who was in Harry Potter or aything, even a tiny role, print out their headshots.’ … And I saw a picture of Cedric Diggory. I said, ‘He’s great!’ …And the look that jumped out to me at that point, and I know its a silly adjective to use, he was Byronic.”

Catherine Hardwicke on the complex relationship between her two stars:

“What Rob and Kristen had is a multitude of feelings for each other,” says Hardwicke. “It was what we needed. Complex, intense fascination.”