Elan Mastai's Notes on Getting Notes

1. What if they’re right?
2. What’s the problem behind the problem?
3. Is there a short-term solution with long-term benefits?

4. Everyone has a motivation. What’s theirs?
5. Is it a disagreement about the script or miscommunication between me and them?
6. Did I express this as clearly as possible?
7. Don’t expect anyone to know the script as well as I do. That’s my job.
8. Are they seeing the big picture? Take them through the falling dominos.

9. What can change? What can’t?
10. Am I standing up for myself or just being defensive?

"I found this scrawled in a notebook. A list I wrote of ten things to remember that I made while waiting to go into a notes session with some studio executives and my producer. Shared in case it helps anyone in some way..."