Catherine Hardwicke tells about "Let Me Sign"

Director Catherine Hardwicke tells stories of the music behind the blockbuster vampire movie Twilight and dedicates two songs to late actor Heath Ledger, who she directed in Lords of Dogtown, in her Guest DJ set. Hardwicke talks about pushing Twilight actor Robert Pattinson into the studio to record a song for the movie and finding inspiration for the closing credits during a show at the Hollywood Bowl.

"I started hearing that Robert Pattinson had this beautiful voice and loved to play guitar and sing after hours. I was so curious, what would his voice sound like? You know, I love him as an actor, but I didn't know - I kept asking him everyday, can I hear your music? Maybe we can somehow use it in the movie. And he was very reluctant. ‘No, you know, let me try and record something.’ He'd say ‘Oh, I'll bring something tomorrow that I think might be good for the movie.’ Tomorrow he didn't bring it, the next day; he never brought it to me. He was very shy about letting me hear it and finally, a friend of mine, Carl Liker, who lives in Venice who has the funkiest little studio inside his apartment and I said ‘Come on over here, I mean Carl wears flip flops and shorts, man, you know its not intimidating, just sit down on the tiny little Japanese chair he has and just play a few songs and lets hear it.

And so Rob did that, and I heard these six tracks and I went in quickly and we put them next to the picture to see if they could fit in the movie, and one of the other songs fit beautifully, but this one, when I heard it, I just thought ‘Oh, this could be that death scene.’ And then, after we made the whole morphing crazy dream sequence we took that on my laptop back into another little studio in the valley and then Rob literally sang and just played to the image on the screen. And I just watched Rob sing this song, maybe ten different times. Every time it sounded like something almost completely different, because it just came out of him, this kind of RAW feeling and in a way, that was my favorite day that I've had in the last two years, just being there in the studio, and watching music just come out of somebody's body."

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