Most performers who make the leap to working behind the camera got their start directing the content shoots for their sites. Then they get the thought in their head that they want to direct and the position becomes an incentive for production houses to get a girl that is in demand to work with them exclusively without having to go the "contract star" route.

The biggest positive about stars directing and producing their own work is that they tend to put more into the work because it's their own money on the line. I'd say girls like Jenna Haze, Belladonna and Sunny Leone took their on-screen work to another level and perhaps added years onto their careers by going into business for themselves and raising the heat level in their respective performances.