Josh Schwartz Producer Quotations

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.