We actually had a good initial relationship, but their trust and hands-off approach lasted only about two days into shooting. Then multiple producers landed on set and starting giving orders one would traditionally consider in the director’s domain. Like dictating specific cuts in scenes, or full scenes we wouldn’t be shooting. Or cutting the single-line role of an actor friend who came three hours to be in the movie, who was promised a part, and to save a hundred bucks, wanting to cut him. “He can’t be in the scene.” “Yes, he can.” It only escalated from here…