My takeaway is that there are different ways to a successful storytelling career, that it's ok to have failure in your first film, it's not necessarily going to be a straight line and that no one has MY voice. My biggest concern is asking people to work for nothing. I have a reasonably big network and I don't think any of them like to work for nothing and have voiced as much several times. With my first film I paid well below usual rates and that was a problem to get people to turn up when I needed them to as other jobs took their priority. Particularly the director!