How do I stay inspired when art is mostly logistics and money?

You can bring any film to completion, and you're worn down by how much of the art turned out to be logistics and money, how the making is mostly schedules and budgets, not inspiration. That disappointment is real, and it's the quiet grief of a lot of people who make things for a living. The dream and the daily work rarely match. But the logistics are not the opposite of the art. They're what let it exist at all. Every film you finished reached an audience because someone, you, handled the unglamorous parts well enough to protect the vision. The art lives inside the logistics, not despite them. That reframe won't make the spreadsheets thrilling, but it might make them meaningful. Find the one moment in your last project that reminded you why you started, and keep it somewhere you'll see it. Let it anchor you through the logistics. The work is mostly craft and coordination. Guarding the small flame of why is how you keep it from becoming only that.