The next time someone reads your script and either really hates something that you know works, or makes cavalier and foolish suggestions - perhaps you should ask them 'Did you ever hear a song for the first time and hate it and then, two weeks later, find yourself singing it?'

[on screen-writing] If we refuse to make destructive changes, why are we considered 'difficult' rather than 'principled and passionate'? Why are we not considered experts, both in general and, most especially, on the distinct universe of the script which we have written?