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The Twilight star told Reuters on Wednesday that she likes
the risk involved in making films with "a culture that's felt".
"What is really obvious and apparent is the difference between
why people make movies in France and why people make movies in
the States," she told Reuters on Wednesday.
"I like the fact that people aren't dying to make a bunch of
money and win a popularity contest, they're actually just
desirous of telling stories - so I feel at home here."
Stewart became the first American actress to win a Cesar,
France's Oscar equivalent, with a Best Supporting Actress award
in 2015 for "Clouds of Sils Maria", also directed by Assayas.
"I realized when I saw her, talked to her, listened to her that
she had unique actress qualities," Assayas told Reuters.
Stewart is no newcomer to independent cinema. She starred in
independent movies before, in-between and after the Twilight
series, between 2008 and 2012, including Jake Scott's "Welcome
to the Rileys" and Walter Salles's "On The Road".
"'Twilight' may have sort of distracted people from what I had
been doing for a long time - but even within that series there
were five Twilight films and in between each one of them I did
an independent movie," she said.
The 26-year-old said that she is looking forward to working with
Assayas again.
"I feel like there is no way in hell that we're not going to
explore another subject together I just don't know when that's
going to be," she said.
"This was lucky that it was in such a condensed period - he has
other things to do and other stories to tell and I'll go do the
same for a bit but hopefully we find each other again."
Stewart also co-stars with Jesse Eisenberg in Woody Allen's
out-of-competition film, "Cafe Society", at Cannes.
(Editing by Louise Ireland)
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