I found this interview with Kristen Stewart in the NY Times to be fascinating for two reasons. 

First was this question and answer:

At some point, you became a character in the tabloids, and I was curious about what you learned from seeing this character, Kristen Stewart, out in the world and you know it’s not you. 

But sometimes it is.

I said that like I know you. I don’t know you. Maybe it was you. 

You do know me now, and that belongs to you. You can think anything about me that you want. If I’ve ever been frustrated, it’s because they get the wrong information, or you go, That’s not who I think I am. But who you think you are has nothing to do with what other people think you are, and no one’s wrong.

And then- also this exchange from that interview:

You know, last night I was reading a book [“The Life You Want”] by this brilliant psychoanalyst and writer named Adam Phillips. In it, he quotes a French philosopher who said that the only modern question is “What is it you don’t want to know about yourself?” What’s your answer to that?

I want to know everything about myself, but I'm not sure I want everyone else's opinion on that. And I don't want to obsess over it.

For me, at this point, I don't think there is anything else I Do want to know about me. 

But I'm not sure why that would be the only "modern question" or even what makes it modern.