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Kristen Stewart has a new perspective on how people treat actresses after directing her first feature film.

“Actresses get treated like s—, I’ve got to tell you,” Stewart, 35, told the U.K.’s The Times in an article published Saturday, Jan. 24. “People think anyone could be an actress, but the first time I sat down to talk about my movie as a director, I thought, ‘Wow, this is a different experience, they are talking to me like I’m somebody with a brain.’ “

Stewart debuted her movie The Chronology of Water at the Cannes Film Festival back in May before it received a public release in December and January. The movie, an adaptation of author Lidia Yuknvavitch’s 2011 memoir of the same name, stars Imogen Poots as Yuknvavitch.

Stewart’s efforts to strike a new path as a filmmaker — and her thoughts on how people perceive actresses — come roughly 25 years after she made her screen acting debut as a child in the 2001 movie The Safety of Objects. She now has more than 63 screen credits to her name.

“There’s this idea that directors have otherworldly abilities, which is not true. It’s an idea perpetuated by men,” she told the outlet. “Not to sound like I’m complaining all the time, but it’s worse for female actors than male ones — they get treated like puppets, but they are not. [Poots, 36] put her whole body and soul into this movie.”

Stewart has long used her voice to shout out sexism in the entertainment industry; she told Harper’s Bazaar U.K. that Hollywood is “disgustingly” sexist back in 2011. “It’s crazy. It’s so offensive, it’s crazy,” she said at the time.

The Twilight star previously admitted to The Hollywood Reporter back in May that she and her team “barely finished this movie” before it premiered at Cannes. While speaking with The Times, she said that making a film was “100% all-consuming.” “I was a maniac on this movie,” she added. “I barely existed outside of it, but I’ve never felt more alive.”

When Stewart spoke with on Jan. 4 at the Variety Creative Impact Awards and 10 Directors to Watch event at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, she said that 2025 was “the craziest year of my entire life” between making The Chronology of Water, marrying wife Dylan Meyer, a producer on the movie, and filming an upcoming movie that Meyer, 38, directed as well.

“I need to go back, fill the well, figure out what my next movie is,” she said. “There are a couple of things I want to do, but you need to, I need to chill before I can actually come back with the gusto that it’s going to take to make those movies.”