By Adam Chitwood

Kristen Stewart never questioned her ability to direct when it came to making her filmmaking debut “The Chronology of Water,” but when she got to post-production, she thought she had “ruined the movie.”

“We got home and I was like, ‘I think I killed everything. I think everything’s dead,’” Stewart told TheWrap founder and CEO Sharon Waxman during TheWrap’s Cannes Conversations in partnership with Brand Innovators, adding that when she started to see what her actors brought to the screen, the film evolved. “Then I opened up all these stunning, beautiful gifts and I was like, ‘No, no, we just did something different.’ Ingratiating yourself to newness is difficult. It’s like you have to mourn the loss of a thing.”