Josh Schwartz Quotations

She came in and she was just not what you expected in that part,

For us, we've had so many cliff-hangers lately, we were really looking for the final episode before baseball to be less a traditional cliff-hanger and more a signal of the show being in a new place, ... There's a sense that the show has really moved over the course of those four episodes and set up some new dynamics.

I think, aside from being extremely attractive, the cast is really talented and can do humor and drama. I think the tone of the show surprised people.

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

Julie and Jimmy are going to make another run at it, but you know that Jimmy Cooper ...

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

We don't have any plans for any big stunt casting at this point. We do have four new characters who are coming on to the show, and they're all great.

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.

Finally, in the episode with the Tijuana road trip, we watched a scene between her and Seth in the diner and knew: This girl is amazing. Let's make her a series regular.

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.

This year is senior year and with senior year comes all that sort of angst and anxiety, all that sort of epic teen drama - who am I, where am I going, what's gonna happen to us, ... It's going to call everyone's identity into question and throw the show back on the family.

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.

this sort of steaming, young Newpsie-in-training socialite who's been toiling in Marissa's shadow all these years.

We are very excited for the opportunity to extend the style ofthe show to our fans,

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

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

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

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

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.

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

A major character will leave, and we may find ourselves at another funeral this year, as well.

There's a sense that the show has really moved over the course of those four episodes and set up some new dynamics.

It's going to call everyone's identity into question and throw the show back on the family.

It's going to bring back some of the classic, bitchy Summer -- there's really sort of an 'All About Eve' thing between Taylor and Summer.

Summer goes toe-to-toe with her as a sort of symbolic gesture to keep the Marissa flame alive at Harbor.

I had to pull back on a lot of the partying that takes place on the show because the network has asked us to work with them on that.

I like to spread the gospel of The O.C.

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

The idea that an indie-rock kid can be made into a TV idol, a heartthrob, is hilarious and gratifying to people in our world,

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

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

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 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.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

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

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

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

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

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.

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

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 was coming off of The O.C. and had very little interest in doing another teen drama. And then I got sent theGossip Girl book series, and I was like, 'I might not be ready to leave high school after all.'

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.

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

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

We have some of the most passionate, vocal fans in the history of television.

The fun thing about TV is you get the opportunity to discover things, and somebody who starts off in a smaller part can really emerge and surprise you.

At first we didn't have a lot of access to New York City, but very quickly, I think people recognized if you were on the show that was a good thing. We always saw the show as a love letter to New York City.

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.

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