Josh Schwartz

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

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

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

“The best years are behind me.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“You gotta strike while the iron's hot.”

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

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

“Year Two is a critical year for any television show.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”