Our November issue has eight incredible cover stars by ELLE | Oct 10, 2016
Stick to Your Guns, Be on Time, and More Business Advice From ELLE's Women in Hollywood
By Emily Zemler | 20161025
"It might sound really obvious, but your desire should coincide with the way you make business decisions. I know it's the thing to be very uneffusive in business, but I really disagree with that. I find that whenever I go against instincts and whatever my emotions are at the time, I usually regret it."
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning Love the Fuck Out of Each Other
By Sally Holmes | Full article | 20161025
And Kristen Stewart's full speech:
"I've looked up to you since I was, like, ten… no, you were five? Who knows, maybe I was, like, nine? Oh my God, dude I love you so much. Yeah, anyway. Okay, here we go, sorry that was like a real trip to have that experience in front of so many people, you know. Good evening ladies, girls, women, transwomen, gentlemen, you guys, too. While I'm so glad to be here tonight with so many incredible people, I would be remiss if I didn't say how much I look forward to a time―this was mentioned in the beginning of the show. When there's not—I mean, for a special night for women, you know—when half of the population doesn't have an asterisk besides it and everyone can be valued for their multitudes and not maligned or ghetto-ized or sidebar-ed or any of that nonsense, you know? When the question 'Hey, what's it like to be a woman in film? What's it like to be a female director? What's it like to be a woman in comedy?' are questions of the past and unfortunately, as of yet, that's not the world we live in, so that said I'm really grateful for the fucking medium.
The precious and insane ways we protect those moments that make us feel less alone or at least valid in our fucking craziness.
"I'm a kid from the valley, and my mom was a script supervisor and my dad was an AD and I'm obsessed with the filmmaking process because they would come home with loaded script bags and craft service-filled pockets and the jackets would smell like smoke machines and Fuller's earth and they'd smell like they've been around the world in a 16-hour day and I became obsessed with the search for something—I'm reading this, but I mean it—real in tiny precise moments or splattered messy ones. The precious and insane ways we protect those moments that make us feel less alone or at least valid in our fucking craziness. Without that we wouldn't make our—so I guess I can say, I'm probably not alone in this, I thank my mom for a little bit of my crazy but I have to say that's the best kind of crazy cause I need that. I'm happy that my parents showed me the way and speeches are really good when they end with quotes and stuff so in the words of Charles Bukowski, who is my absolute boy and arguably a misogynist who loved women and arguably a drunk who probably came up with this when he was wasted: 'An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way and an artist says a hard thing in a simple way.'
That's what we all want to play, right? Real complex women. Because what the fuck else is there?
"So, very simply, thank you very very much, ELLE magazine and Robbie Myers and all the women—'huwomen'—who came before me. And thank you, Dakota Fanning, D-bags. My girl. She flew here to do this because we're like such good friends, ya know [laughs]. I just watched her in a movie and it's called… it's Philip Roth's American Pastoral, she's SO GOOD IN IT! It doesn't surprise me or anything like that, it's just… wait til you guys see it. I love you so much, man. I'm so proud of you and I'm always really proud of you, I'll do this for you really soon, just ask me! And also the incredibly sick women that I worked with this year and last, Kelly Reichardt—fucking steel train of a director. Her crew, my production designers, sound mixer, composer, assistant editor, makeup artist, costume designer, colorist on the short flick that I directed, all women. Boom! Olivier Assayas, Woody Allen, Ang Lee for being so brilliant and hiring me to be a real complex woman in their most recent endeavors cause that's what we all want to play, right? Real complex women. Because what the fuck else is there? It's been a really rad year for me, thank you guys so much. I've destroyed this podium, fuck it!"
2016 ELLE Women in Hollywood
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