Several years after Catherine Hardwicke helped kick off "Twilight" fever by helming the series' first film, the director is opening up about the ups — well, more the downs — of being involved with the franchise. "Every one of those scripts sucked," she t

Catherine Hardwicke was always a bizarre choice to direct the mopey first Twilight movie, after coming off the skaters flick Lords of Dogtown and the depressing cautionary tale Thirteen. And now, almost four years after her movie came out, we get some in

Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke was forced to shut down production on her cult 1995 skateboarding film Lords Of Dogtown after suffering a near-fatal accident on set. Hardwicke was shooting the movie with late actor Heath Ledger and Emile Hersch in

At a Sundance dinner, [Hardwicke] had been seated next to the heads of Summit Entertainment, who handed her five scripts and asked her to read them. "Every one of those scripts sucked," she says. "Oh, Lord, did they suck." "I thought the script was horri

It will probably be at least another five years before Catherine Hardwicke can sit down for an interview without talking about working on Twilight. Then again, if she keep dropping bombs like these when she is asked about the movie, she might never escap

Since the Twilight franchise began in 2008, reviewers have found many angles to take in their criticism, be it the wooden performances, overt messages, overdone melodrama or the poor writing. Not excluded from these comments is the first movie, but do yo