Working in the Film Industry: The Secret to a Successful Career with Tim Tortora

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Working in the film industry can be a very rewarding experience. You get to be a part of the creative process, collaborate with other talented individuals, and see your work come to life on the big screen. However, it's important to keep in mind that the film industry is also a business. There are many moving parts, and things can change very quickly. That is what our guest, Tim Tortora, shares today.

In today's edition of the Knucklehead Podcast, Tim Tortora talks about what attracted him to the entertainment industry, his secret to a successful career, and his fair share of screw-ups.

Tim Tortora is a Hollywood CFO and Movie Producer with 30+ years of experience in finance and physical logistics of filmmaking. His executive experience and drive for innovation motivated him and his team to launch the F3 System™ in Fall 2017. Tim now oversees day-to-day management of the Outsourced CFO service, Full Force Financial, where he and his firm deliver a done-for-you suite of back-end financial processing and forecasting for content creators.

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In This Episode

04:55 - How diversity and inclusion in the entertainment industry have evolved over time

07:54 - How the movie industry measures the quality of its content

10:43 - What attracted Tim to the entertainment industry

13:31 - What prevents Tim from using drugs and alcohol

15:38 - The common traits of successful business people

17:56 - Tim's secret to a successful career

24:40 - Tim's fair share of screw-ups

29:21 - What Tim has to say about making mistakes

Favorite Quotes

05:43 - "Diversity is not a new concept, and it's been happening. It's been going on for a while. What you see on the front end is a dramatic change. You're seeing a lot more faces of diversity on the screen where you didn't get five years ago." - Tim Tortora

10:19 - "I like to liken this business to throwing spaghetti at a wall and seeing what sticks. We make a lot of stuff, many different kinds of things. And when it works, it's cookie cutter. It's replicate, rinse, repeat, and do it again. Same story, different actors, slightly different twist, but it's kind of the same thing. Cookie-cutter over and over, and once in a while, you get an anomaly." - Tim Tortora

18:45 - "You have to let creatives spin out into the universe and reel them back in. They're going to give you a hundred ideas. Ninety-five of them are going to be terrible ideas. And you have to figure out which ones are the five." - Tim Tortora

19:44 - "The best movies I've worked on were the hardest, the most contentious, with the greatest amount of fight and confrontation I've ever worked on in my entire career." - Tim Tortora

22:16 - "I have worked around creatives and supported creatives my entire career in a way where I can be a part of the creation of music, movies, and television. And that, to me, has been as rewarding and fulfilling as making the content or making whatever it is we're working on." - Tim Tortora

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