Quotes from Josh Schwartz

The girls in high school who watched 90210? I was watching Seinfeld.

The support that we have from the network in terms of watching us at an unusual time in the year and playing our episodes three times in a given week until we built an audience... is exceptional.

There is always drama and there will always be drama, but its the way its presented in my head that makes it so interesting. Everyone gets their time in the middle of the drama.

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer.

You do in your art what you cannot do in your life.

Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I'm in a hurry.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

There's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.

You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age.

We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change.

It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.

We just happened to come along at time where there hadn't been a new young adult drama that also could appeal to adults as well in quite some time. We sort of found a little bit of a niche.

Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.

It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

You gotta strike while the iron's hot.

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.