Shumita Basu

Your husband is at home.

He is really involved with the kids and holding it all down while you're away on assignment.

I mean, what is family life like for you and what was important for people to understand in watching the documentary about your family life?

I mean, it's like, you know, and so much changes in short amounts of time at those ages.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And there's something about, I mean, every scene of you coming home in the documentary, it's like your kids just throw themselves at you, for lack of better words.

I mean, they miss you, clearly.

Yeah.

There's even a scene where Alfred, at three years old, is trying to talk you out of working entirely.

He's like, what if you just stayed home?

It's a very, very sweet scene.

You talk in the documentary a little bit about how when Lucas was born, you felt a sort of external pressure to change the way you work.

What kinds of pressures were you feeling?

How much was coming from you internally versus externally?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's one thing for you to feel that yourself versus have someone else impose it on you.

Right.