I didn’t have time to watch the video yet, but Horror-Movies.ca published a YouTube video that the fansite, HisGoldenEyes, compiled of the 2009 New Moon Comic Con panel. You can watch Twilight stars Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart talk about the new film below.

After the video we have some quotes from New Moon director Christ Weitz also via Horror-Movies.ca.

Christ Weitz on the New Moon cast

“I think the surprise for me was the tremendous infusion of oxygen that came when the cast showed up. You’ve got a script, and you’ve got that all squared away. You search for your locations, and that’s enormously tedious. I feel like I saw every tree in British Columbia. And then, these wonderful people show up, whose job it is to impersonate other people and creatures, and that brings this delightful element to it. That’s when I really, really started to enjoy the process.”

Weitz on the crazy Twilight fans

“It was with Rob and Kristen, and all of the cast. It’s not just Rob. It’s really anybody who embodies, for these fans, the characters that they love. In the very best way, they have a hard time distinguishing between the love that they feel for the characters and the love that they feel for people they don’t know, who are the actors. So, yeah, you need security and you need people to protect them from the love of the fans, which is different from being the bodyguard for someone that someone is trying to assassinate. It’s a good thing, but sometimes you do worry about people getting crushed.”

Weitz on bringing the books to life

“I think it’s the feeling that, in some way, the vision presented on the screen was not so different from what they dreamed up in their head, when they were reading it, and that’s a very difficult thing to do because you’re presenting a contrary image to what any reader’s experience is. There’s something very sacred about the experience of reading a book. There’s something very extraordinary about a film, when you’re in a darkened room, seeing it. And, if those two things can blend, in some good way, then that’s great.”