Bella and Edward's Twilight

MediaBlvd Magazine> Stephenie, how difficult was it for you to hand your story over to a filmmaker and let go of it?

Stephenie Meyer> I’m a quick decision maker. I don’t stress out over things. I just make a decision, and I’m done. But, with the movie thing, they first came to me about six months before Twilight came out, and I knew that it could go either way. And, actually, statistically, it goes the bad way more often. But, what pulled me through was the idea that, if I could just see it on the screen, with one scene right -- preferably the meadow scene -- that was what I really wanted, and I felt it was worth the risk. It was touch and go. There was another script. They could have filmed it and not called it Twilight because it had nothing to do with the book, and that’s kind of frightening. When Summit came into the picture, they were so open to letting us make rules for them, like “Okay, Bella cannot be a track star. Bella cannot have a gun or night vision goggles. And, no jet skis. Are you okay with that?” And, they were so cool!