5. “For every 8 hours of filming, it yields approximately 1 minute of footage (if that). There’s so much waste in filmmaking.” 
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“A day on a large film set involves a ton of set-up; it’s not that it’s ‘wasteful’ in the creative process sense, but it feels wasteful in the practical sense.
You might have 5 hours of setting up at a location and getting your talent through hair/makeup/wardrobe, roll for an hour, break for lunch, roll for 3 more hours, then begin wrap.
That means you’ve got 4 hours of shooting, which involves a lot of blocking, troubleshooting, getting different
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