As a director in development, that is to say someone who is creative—and feature film is a very good example of this, where I am at the origin of a project in collaboration with a producer and/or a writer—my interaction with those government agencies that you've listed is very frequent.
It's extremely important interaction. It happens at two levels. One is, of course, in elaborating a budget and a shooting plan and securing financing for the project, but also at the more advanced stage of development, it's a creative relationship. It's one where the conversation extends to content on script and becomes incredibly important to how this film is going to happen, where it's going to be shot, and who's going to be in it.
It's a critically important conversation, one where I dare say if it didn't exist, none of us would be here.