Warren Smith

It's very dependent upon like your profile.

It has different weight.

It's just everything has changed.

I mean, it'll disrupt.

I'm very not optimistic.

I'm the opposite of optimistic when it comes to the film industry, primarily because it is structured around antiquated systems with the unions, which self-sabotage, drive up production costs, which decreases the number of productions.

Like right now is the hardest time it's ever been to make a living in the film industry if you're working camera or crew, which is a gig-to-gig economy, which is why I went to graduate school.

After doing that for a while, I realized, like, this is...

I don't want to do this my whole life.

And I realized it can be chaos.

And there's just not much security.

And also academia appealed to me in other ways.

But there's so many flaws to it and so many foolish business practices that you're not allowed to question.

It's the perfect metaphor in a way for...

the same pattern playing out in so many other areas in life where you i cannot get through to people in the union because they are like shoulder to shoulder no i'm in this tribe and you're not allowed to question it it's very strange and i'm like well would you like to have a debate and or a conversation about it they they won't do it i'm just

Yeah, it was really after the strikes, I tried to, I made a video about it and it really pissed people off.

Like on, I was very small still, but it was when I was building this.

And I remember that distinctly because it was just so nonsensical to me.

I was like, don't you guys see like you're driving up the production costs, like the demands that you are making to, for example, to write a movie.

If one person writes it, okay, fine, yeah.