Meandering Thought: Notes

One skill it's taken me a long time to recognize as essential (and just plain existent) in the entertainment industry, is the careful dance of respectfully fielding notes. It's not just that you need to address them. Sometimes you specifically need to not address them, in order to maintain the quality of your work -- but you need to make them feel like it's been addressed, like wizardry it feels like. Unless you're trying to make a statement about your voice or your intent. Some combination of these notes-responses has come up every time I've worked on a development project with execs or producers.