We have eight full-time staff, but we are structured around an outsourcing model. With greater access to technology and media services like Netflix coming into play, I realized that overhead can be vanity and no overhead can be sanity. We are now nimble enough to shoot a low-budget branded-content web series or load up to shoot a $6 million feature film.

Nobody works for me. We work together. There is no job that is greater than any other job because it takes a collective when you’re shaping content. It doesn’t matter what your role is on a particular project. If you’ve worked with us, you’re officially “Buck fam.”

Back when I was a PA many years ago, I was told by a director of photography to fetch him some gum, so I went to the craft services table and the only gum there was Clorets. I handed him the Clorets and he said: “I wanted gum! This is Clorets. Are you saying that I have bad breath?” And then he turned to the crew and announced, “Hey everybody, Sean here thinks I have bad breath!” Six years later, that DOP was in the Buck office interviewing for a job. Your knee-jerk reaction in a scenario like that is “Yeah, as soon as you fetch me some gum!” But that’s not the way I conduct myself, it’s not the way you build teams and it’s not the culture of Buck. So I hired him. And I think because of the circumstances, he stepped up and actually did a great job.