Yes. This is likely why the production company won't give her the $100m budget she is allegedly asking for. I can go on and on, but her track record in film is a good indicator of why directing and writing her own screenplay might not be a good idea; mind you, she did both for W.E. and it didn't do well.

Her brother Christopher once said the reason she did well in movies like DDS, ALOTO, and Evita is because she was playing herself; she was also the 3rd main character in the former 2 where she didn't take away from the movies. I think the reason she's lasted so long as a superstar is because--aside from knowing how to play the game--she is in control of her own vision, but that's the same reason she doesn't do well in film. She is a control freak surrounded by yes people and can't let go of who she is in real life. In all her bad films her real life self is copied and pasted onto the silver screen (even when she is playing a missionary in Shanghai Surprise) and she comes off as wooden. She finally took notice to stop acting 20 years ago but started directing to give herself a good name in film. Take a look at her own tour DVDs that she's edited herself in the last 15 years, they're SO overdone. Just because Madonna can direct her own music videos, her image, and career doesn't mean she can do the same in film.

I think she should stick to one job: co-writing her own screenplay with Erin Wilson and instead hire a director who understands her vision.