"I didn't realize I was looking for a theater until this place came to my attention. Then it was like a gunshot went off and the race was on. I ran toward it with everything I had. I'm fascinated by broken-down old theaters. I always want to see what mysteries they hold."
"It's an opportunity to make a space to gather and scheme and dream together. I see it as an antidote to all the corporate bullshit, a place that takes movie culture away from just buying and selling. I think there's a huge desire and craving for what this kind of space can offer."
"The next movie I wanna make: I want to do it for nothing, I want to make not a dollar, I want it to be a smash hit - do you know what I mean? It's just so difficult to make movies, it just doesn't need to be,"
"I'm just trying to think of some weird Marxist, communist-like situation."
Kristen Stewart plans to restore the Highland Theater in Highland Park, Los Angeles, which closed in 2024. The project will refurbish the building and add community meeting spaces near a light-rail stop and the Chicken Boy statue. Stewart expresses fascination with broken-down theaters and intends the space to foster gathering, scheming, and dreaming as an antidote to corporate movie culture. Stewart criticizes the entertainment industry as capitalist, exclusionary, and racist, and seeks to make films freed from profitability as the main metric. The venue could host premieres, potentially including a Twilight remake.
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