Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You keep trying to work with him.
This is the real-life decision made by scriptwriter Dennis Foon.
"Always, you're confronted with notes you find to be insulting, intolerable,
stupid, useless or counterproductive," Foon says. "Your job is to try and
figure out what the problem is that they're trying to point to."
Dealing with criticism takes flexibility, creativity and patience.
It also takes the ability to be humble and find compromises.
"If you get defensive at a script meeting, and won't take people's
notes and won't work with them, you very quickly get a reputation as
someone who can't be worked with," Foon says. "Defensiveness, bullheadedness,
egotism, all those kinds of qualities are pretty much career killers, certainly
in the television and film industry."