From the people I've known who have, it sounds like organised chaos. Many moving parts, lots going on, and it all has to be highly scheduled or the chaos wins and nothing works

I worked on movies for 3 years. It is quite different from any other job I have worked. 12 hour shifts are the standard.

Every show I worked on, there was breakfast half an hour before call. 6 hours after call was lunch, 1 hour after the last crew member got their plate lunch ended. If the show was not wrapped for the day 6 hours after lunch ended the show had to provide 2nd meal, or pay penalties to the crew.

There was always a lot of hurry up and wait.

Seeing the way a movie was filmed was always interesting. Entire scenes that in the Final Cut is two or more actors on screen was only one at a time during filming.

Everything I worked on, except one project, was very low budget. There was a lot of the same crew between projects.

It’s been a few years, but I remember Interacting with movie fans is great, but working with movie talent and their reps is a nightmare. Their egos are enormous and fragile all at the same time, and often get in the way of efficient production. Producers can be hit or miss, some very famous ones are really quite lovely, while others that you’d recognize the name but not the face would try to get fired anyone who innocently made friendly small talk or made eye contact. Voice actors will drink you under the table. Everything is high pressure and stressful. Money will always come before art, and everyone is risk-averse. Editors do not get the respect they deserve, and can single handedly turn the director/producers shit production into a masterpiece. Everything in Hollywood is a lie: sets, the talent, everyone’s relationships, the funding, the story, verbal promises, but the production schedules are immutable truth that can never be altered.