Your words acknowledges my integrity. Thank-you for that.
Recently a LA development company was interested in helping me turn a short story into a full-length screenplay. When presented with certain details the contract felt like a lie by omission. Everyone does it this way the CEO stated. "I'm not everyone," I said and I declined. It was unethical at best and did not feel right.
In the 1990s I just decided I was successful - in starting a private practice and people in-need flowed to me by word of mouth when I came to that realization of success.