Twilight' star Ashley Greene contrasts 'New Moon' director Chris Weitz with 'Eclipse's David Slade

Ashley Greene in 'New Moon' - Summit Ent.

One of the most famous cast-based stories coming from the set of The Twilight Saga: New Moon was how director Chris Weitz shifted the focus of the Twilight series films' direction by providing each cast member with a thirty-odd page notebook of welcome, instructions, and goals for the film.
Yes, think Jerry Maguire mission statement meets Professor Skinner's book in Orange County, and you might be getting a sense of the sentiment associated with Mr. Weitz's packet - at least from outside of the fishbowl.
Well, Ashley Greene's recent interview with IESB.net offers a bit of new insight into the production process of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse with director David Slade . . . at least in the sense that she confirms the difference in approach on this point.

Q: For The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, did David Slade give you a syllabus or mission statement, the way that Chris Weitz did for The Twilight Saga: New Moon?

Ashley: No, he definitely didn't give us that. But, each of the cast did sit down and have hour-long, sit-down conversations with him, probably two or three times, going over the whole script and us highlighting anything that we wanted to talk about. He went about it a different way, but he was also very open about forming some type of collaboration. The directors have their own vision. They don’t want to change our characters, but their vision may be a little different. Obviously, David Slade has a little darker spin on it than Chris Weitz may have had, so we had to find a way to mold them together.

The rest of the interview is available here.
While it seems that Slade isn't the note-writing sort, Greene's words indicate that he was very thorough with each cast member in reviewing the script and vision for the film. That sort of interactivity is exactly the type of thing that usually lends itself to good vibrations on the set.