I strive for authenticity.
I strive to show people the world I grew up
in.
The jobs in the American West haven't changed very much
over the past century.
You still do the job the same way.
In order to get food on the table.
It involves a horse, it involves a rider, and it
involves your hands.
You're going to gather them together.
We're going to push them around and put them in
this round then.
And then that's it.
Everybody ready?
Yeah, there's few jobs that are a way of life.
If you're ranching or you're farming, your job is your
way of life.
You're never off duty.
There is no clock to punch.
So the end of the day, we are just parents.
You're a parent to the thing you raise.
You're a parent to the animals that help you raise
the food.
You wake up in the morning, you take care of
everything.
You feed it, you water it, you doctor it, you
teach it, and then occasionally you get to chase it
off into the sun rising.
So it just comes back to authenticity.
I don't rehearse with my actors.
There's no way for me to inform them what this
way of life is.
You just have to do it.
The better I can make them understand the thing they're
acting out, the better the performance is, the more authentic
the scenes look.
Then it looks real.
I just take my actors and put them to work,
and so when they perform their character, they're just doing
another form of the job.
Anyone who ranches for a living, anyone who Cowboys for
a living, when they see my work, I want them
to say that's how you do it.