You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left.
So I grew up in an area where it wasn't expected that I would have a kind of scholastic career, or go to grammar school, or anything like that.
I think a director does have a huge responsibility to draw strands together, and to seek extension and development of his or her own ideas.
Trying to get work and life in balance is the most difficult thing. I have that knowledge now, but it was a setback at the time.
I love to have as much input as possible.