Chapter 19 - Preparation for Your Journey - Quiz
1) How did Orson Welles get his start?
In Theatre in the UK and Ireland where he took his inheritance and insisted to everyone he was a well respected director from America.
2) What similarities are there between Orson Welles and Jerry Weintraub?
They were both ultra confident and made people belief through charisma and charm that they could do a job they weren't really qualified for.
3) How was Jerry Weintraub hired at Warner Brothers?
He was waiting to interview as a PA and when no one answered the secretary for who was to interview next he pretended to be the guy interviewing for the Development Exec position.
4) Aside from shaking hands confidently, what else can you do to convince people that you know what you’re talking about?
Just be confident and tell them you are a producer or director.

The Role of a Producer
Nathan Kress

A movie producer has many roles to fill.  They find the script, secure funding, and do anything and everyting else needed to complete the film including keeping track of all receipts and managing funds on a daily basis.
Once a producer finds a script they want to work on they make a budget and start looking for investors or other ways to fund the project like KickStarter or IndieGoGo to raise the needed money.  Making a detailed budget can take a lot of time and work.  You have to call vendors and get quotes, look for a crew and negotiate rates for their work, decide whether you can afford a union or non-union project.  Decide whether your project needs and can afford teamsters.
If you are going to make it a SAG project to try and attract big named actors then there are a huge number of guidelines you have to follow for their working hours, you'll have to provide a stipend and travel expenses, etc.  
For most starting out filmmakers you will be looking at a non-union project which can be just as costly depending on what the script calls for.  You have to go through the script page by page color coding everything on it to find out what you will need for locations, props, costumes and set design, everything the script calls for.
Then you have to get real estimates on each of those things and get quotes on travel, airline expenses, locations, trucks and other tranportation, food, and everything else you combed the script for.  She recommended making a bare bones budget, a medium sized budget, and a wish you could have budget for each film.
At this point you go to investors and maybe crowd fund to get all the money needed to hire the actors and crew, get a director, and a Unit Production Manager who hires the crew.  The Line Producer keeps track of the budget on a daily basis making sure they don't go over.
Then you have post production costs which can fluctuate like any.  After all a budget is just an estimate and you never know what will end up happening or breaking while on set or location.  
Some producers might just provide equipment or resources while others may just be more investors looking to get a producer credit and learn the business.