Robert Pattinson Talks Dior, Career & More with GQMiddleEast

Below is an extract from Rob’s interview with GQ Middle East, which you can read in full by clicking on hyperlink:

Always try to do the opposite…

“Every job I take, it has to be completely different from the last, otherwise what’s the point?”

You don’t go down the indie route to distance yourself from Twilight…

“At least not consciously. It would be crazy to try and replicate one success elsewhere. And I do have quite specific tastes. But indie movies can be fragile. That world is really wild, and finance for a picture can disappear in a heartbeat.”

There was a time when finding work was difficult…

“I’d liked the direction that my career had been going for the last five or six years, but it was so difficult to find jobs that would also keep the momentum going forwards.”

Every year there was panic…

“The problem was that, even if I had a job, because it was an indie there was no guarantee it would reach the cinema. I did a few that just fell apart. Not on the day we were to start shooting, not in pre-production, but in production itself. I’d literally get a call from a producer telling me that the whole movie had fallen apart.”

But when you do find the great parts, it’s worth it…

“Working on The Lighthouse last year, was just such a great experience. It’s always fun when the movie is just about you and one other person because there’s no waiting around. And when the other person is Willem Dafoe, well, then it’s just a real gift.”