“Bella is naïve but also sure-footed. Whatever it is inside of her that drives her is stronger than she is. She just trusts the shit out of herself.” @

“I never saw her as being weak. I always thought that it was such a bold and self-trusting thing to put yourself in a position of almost letting your boyfriend rip your throat out… She trusts her gut. She doesn’t get too caught up in her own head.” @

“In the beginning of the movie--as much as everyone say's she's an outsider and she doesn't know where she fits in--she is perfectly fine with that and is fine with being solitary. She's not searching for something at the beginning of the movie. It's a skewed balance. She helps him. He doesn't really help her.”

“A lot of people say that you have a story about a really weak girl who is obsessed with really strong, perfect, ideal men and that's so not the case. She is tormented by them and the fact that she subjects herself to it, because of the way she feels, says something about her.” @

“All of the things that sort of annoy me about her are the things that I like about her because she always sort of comes around and realizes that she can be a little selfish or maybe... She's definitely not naggy, but like--because she tries so hard not to be sometimes--I feel like it's like, why don't you just let yourself be a girl? Why don't you just let yourself BE. Sometimes she picks on herself too much but I completely relate to that. I always say my favorite thing about her is just that she screws up a lot and doesn't care. It's just like, this is the way life is and I'm young and I'm growing up.” @