The Safdie brothers qualified you as “indomitable” in an interview. A compliment coming from them …

I love them. I stumbled upon one frame of their film Heaven Knows What even before the trailer is circulating. Amazed by the power of this picture, I immediately emailed Brady Corbet, with whom I had to make a film, because he became director. I knew it was highly connected to New York. And of course, he knew the Safdie. I met them, and two months later, they sent me one of the best scripts I’ve ever read. With them, I will discover another cinema. The actors with whom I have to play are not professionals because Benny and Josh are the wild casting. I will not be looked at as an actor in the classic sense.

I can see that with the Safdie brothers. They used that everybody tells them “no.” They live in a world they do not understand, then they go into force. Just a few weeks we have been testing for the film in a car wash station, right in New York. We just came in and began to turn a trick. Employees and customers were looking at us like we were crazy: “Go, guys, go, what are you doing there, whore!” But before they had time to call the cops, the scene was turned.

Via: http://www.robertpattinsonau.com/2016/03/01/mag-scan-new-photos-and-interview-with-robert-pattinson-in-numero-magazine/