MTV: ‘The breakup scene was a lot longer in the book, and it’s a very subtle scene,’ he says of the differences from page to screen. Twilighters love Stephenie Meyer, and so do the stars of “New Moon.” Which made it all the more interesting recently when MTV solicited questions from the fans over at the Movies Blog, and one of them seemed innocent enough: Which scene came out better in the November 20 film than it was written in the novel?

“I don’t know,” Kristen Stewart said when we hit her with the question last week. “I can’t — that would be a really presumptuous thing to say. I couldn’t go there.”

What’s the problem? Well, naturally, nobody wants to offend the Queen of “Twilight” and presume anything from their movie is better than it was in the book.

“I don’t know if I could answer that,” Robert Pattinson laughed, echoing the statements of his leading lady. “Um, I think this one follows really closely to the book. I do. … They always sound like political answers, but this was my favorite book.”

Well, surely we can all acknowledge that actors play a major part in the interpretation of a script. And the “New Moon” script is at times very different than the “New Moon” novel. Pattinson, who it must be said does always strive to answer every question with honesty, was willing to acknowledge both points when we pressed him a little bit.

“There are some difficult bits,” he said of the novel-to-movie translation. “The breakup scene was a lot longer in the book, and it’s a very subtle scene. I mean, it’s such a weird line which Edward’s walking and how Bella’s reacting to him. And in the script, as well, it was very well-distilled.”

Ultimately, RPattz explained to us, if fans want to learn more about the motivations behind Edward breaking up with Bella in the woods of Forks they should definitely consult the “New Moon” novel. But if they want to watch actors break down the tender moment and make it more brief, they can see the emotions in Rob and Kristen’s eyes rather than reading all those pages describing it.

“I think it works very well. I hope!” he laughed. “It’s weird to say that, because I’m in it.”