Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You tell him what you think of him and his ideas.
"Look, don't you have anything positive or constructive to say?" you ask him. "All you seem to do is criticize and offer dumb suggestions."
Your outburst feels great -- for about five seconds. The other producers and the director don't look happy. Obviously, despite your impression of the guy, they thought he was being constructive.
"Perhaps we should cut the meeting short," one of the producers says. "It sounds like our writer needs a break -- badly."
You've hurt your chances of working with these people again. Also, the rest of the script meetings are going to be awkward after your outburst. Maybe you do need a break.
"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," says scriptwriter Dennis Foon. "Defensiveness, bullheadedness, egotism, all those kinds of qualities are pretty much career killers, certainly in the television and film industry."