Gus Van Sant has revealed that he was nervous before his 'audition' to be director of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn.
Sant was one of three high profile filmmakers, the others being Sofia Coppola and Bill Condon, who were tipped to take on the final instalment of the vampire franchise.
And Sant admits that he found the selection process difficult as he had not 'auditioned' to direct a movie in over twenty years.
Speaking to MTV News the filmmaker said: "I got very nervous. There were, like, 15 people. I had never really auditioned or gone into a job interview in that way since maybe 1988 or '87. I guess I was unprepared for it. Usually people just hire me.
"In this case, they wanted me to talk about their project, which really needed to follow very closely the book and which the outline was following very closely the book," he added.
"There was a certain amount of room for illumination on their own project, but they were the experts. I was talking about the book, and really all I was saying was, 'OK, this is great, let's go to it.'
"That was the pitch. I think they're used to something else. They're used to, for those of you who might audition for film jobs, a 40-minute dissertation with perhaps visual aids and a pep talk about how fantastic this project is going to be. I just didn't know how to do that."
And while Sant missed out to Condon he will be back in the director's chair later this year with Restless - his first movie since Milk.
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