JOSH SCHWARTZ

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

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.

Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine.

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.

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.

The best years are behind me.

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

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

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

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

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

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'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.

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

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.

The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do.

You gotta strike while the iron's hot.

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.

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

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

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.

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.