Jennifer Morrison

Because I feel that from someone from the instant I watch their tape.

Like, can this person be on a set?

It doesn't mean that I can see a hundred tapes of very talented people, but probably only three of them feel like they know how to be on a set.

First and foremost.

There's that.

No, but it's like there's this unbelievably massive ecosystem that's moving and spinning so fast.

And you have to be able to walk in and be right in its orbit without missing a step and without holding up the...

holding up the process.

Gumming up the gears.

Yeah.

I mean, I always say to people, when you step on a set, especially if you're a day player or you're a guest star, if no one talks to you, you've done a great job.

Because that means that you...

No news is good news.

It means you walked in, you did your job, you crushed the role.

I mean, I, as a director, try to go out of my way to go talk to all those people because I know they're all going, was it okay?

What am I doing?

I'm floating in space.

I try really hard to track them down and make sure that we don't move on so fast.

But there's just this massive, expensive machine that's spinning.

And your talent is part of it.