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

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

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

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

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

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.'