I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.

I welcome challenges. I triumph on them, it helps me grow. Without the challenges that I have faced, I may not be where I am at all.

Any path is only a path and there is no affront to oneself or to others in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

There's no question that I have always wanted to be mayor. I know I am strategically not supposed to be saying that, but I don't care.

My commitment is to produce at the cheapest price and the best quality.

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.

I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and activism being synonymous.

All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.

You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.

I'd love to have a family one day. Having kids is the meaning of life and I can't wait to be a mom.

We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We're the people party and we're going to stick up for the people.