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

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.

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.

The fun thing about TV is you get the opportunity to discover things, and somebody who starts off in a smaller part can really emerge and surprise you.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

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

We have some of the most passionate, vocal fans in the history of television.