Gary Davy came on board as Casting Director, and I remember came to his first meeting with me and Steve and put down a photo of a charismatic emergent Irish actor called Michael Fassbender, saying “”this is your man.”

Cannes Film Fest 2008--When I was a child growing up in 1981, aged about eleven or twelve, there were three things that influenced me: the Brixton Riots, Tottenham winning the FA Cup, which was fantastic, and Bobby Sands. His image appeared on the TV screen virtually every night with a number underneath it and it stayed with me, that passion and that level of confrontation to die on hunger strike–Steve McQueen

Pattinson says that Edward is caught unaware by his attraction to Bella: “From Edward's perspective, he has nothing, really. He's spent his entire life fixated on wanting to be human or die. And then Bella comes into his life and destroys any stability he's been able to create. He initially starts the relationship to test himself. But when he gets to know her realizes this girl has reawakened him to some kind of life.”

When I read the book, I was swept away with the whole obsession, that ecstasy. Stephenie writes with such an authentic voice. Twilight had the potential to be so visual and cinematic and to capture that feeling: how it feels to be in love for the first time, and loving somebody so much that you'd literally be willing to turn into a vampire–Director Catherine Hardwicke

“When I first read the script, it was incredibly compelling on many different levels, from a historical perspective but also as a great thriller. I was fascinated by the conspiracy. It was dynamic and suspenseful from the opening to the end. Then finding out it was based on a true story makes it even more mind-blowing. That combination made it very interesting for me–Tom Cruise