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.

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

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

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.

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

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.