# notes --- - This is the article that got me to pick up [[The Chronology of Water]] :) - [[i think there's an entire, yet-to-be-written female language]] # highlights --- > “**I think there’s an entire, yet-to-be-written female language,**” Stewart says. “There’s a certain physicality to the type of film that I want to make that I think will be, in a slugline, really unattractive to quote-unquote ‘buyers,’ but in action, is entirely pervasively moving. That has just not been an easy sell. It’s not about the plot. **It’s about someone self-Heimliching and contextualizing why that person has swallowed their own voice their whole life.**” [⤴️](https://omnivore.app/me/https-variety-com-2024-film-news-kristen-stewart-directing-chron-18cfc19a5a7#d42a702b-e2d5-4a68-b6f1-5277f1ce1ad1) ^d42a702b > “There’s just something about the open nature of our physicality, and I mean that vaginally — the flow, the bleeding,” Stewart says. “We can take in a lot of negativity, and we can put out a lot of beauty, and that is what the movie’s about. But it comes from this disgusting, bloody orifice, and we’ve negated the existence of it forever, and it needs to be in discourse. It needs to be physicalized in movies. It needs to be looked at, acknowledged. It needs to be fucking honestly worshiped.” [⤴️](https://omnivore.app/me/https-variety-com-2024-film-news-kristen-stewart-directing-chron-18cfc19a5a7#85397072-5116-4b62-bfe0-9ab82220e604) ^85397072 > In an industry in which Greta Gerwig can gross $1.4 billion turning a plastic doll into a treatise on feminism, one may expect that _someone_ would see the potential value in helping one of the most famous and acclaimed actors of her generation forge her own psalm to womanhood. But that has not been Stewart’s experience. [⤴️](https://omnivore.app/me/https-variety-com-2024-film-news-kristen-stewart-directing-chron-18cfc19a5a7#8a6e6192-b7da-4cf2-8aea-f3f1836759b2) ^8a6e6192