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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

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

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Year Two is a critical year for any television show.