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Josh Schwartz
American
Producer
About the author
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.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Idea
#Change
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.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Day
#Being
#Age
#Music
The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Age
#School
Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I'm in a hurry.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Washington
Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Beginning
#Famine
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.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Time
#Career
You have to act like a responsible professional in the industry regardless of your age.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Act
#Age
You gotta strike while the iron's hot.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
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.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Time
#People
#Goal
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.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Time
#Drama
The girls in high school who watched 90210? I was watching Seinfeld.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#School
#Girls
It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#People
#Experience
#Sexuality
Year Two is a critical year for any television show.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Television
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.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#World
#Parents
#University
The best years are behind me.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Years
I think you're only as good as the work that you do.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Work
I think our show is very different from Orange County.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Reality
#Fatigue
I want every character be an outsider in some way.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Character
#Want
As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
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.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Being
#Press
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.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Time
#Support
#Network
The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Want
#Hollywood
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.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Time
#Will
#Drama
There's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.
Josh Schwartz,
American
Producer
#Reality
#Fatigue