Do screenwriters have to take the notes if they don't like them?

Advice from a professional screenwriter

This is common question from emerging screenwriters. I get it. Your screenplay is your baby, and you want to protect the creative integrity of their script at all costs…

… and yet, here you are in Hollywood.

It’s important to understand that if you sell a feature script to a major studio, and if they decide to produce it, it will almost certainly be heavily rewritten — either by the director or any number of other writers they attach to the project.

So if you don’t take the note, someone else will.

If you sell a TV pilot, on the other hand, it’s a little different.