We like to make sure there is a plot at the center of it and that you care about the people but to poke fun of little things, like the toast restaurant in the pilot. — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
The original pilot script [ of "Mary and Jane"], we literally just wrote for fun. It was, let's just do this. — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
We feel like we are using the East Side to kind of spoof what everybody thinks is cool. — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
Somebody said, there is no show if it goes legal. But actually, there is. — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
I don't think it feels like a burden. We did not really think of it ["Mary and Jane"] that way. I think it is… — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
It feels like a totally different MTV now.Now they have all their own original series, and people are talking about going back to music… — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
We did want it ["Mary and Jane"] to feel a little different and have some surreal weird touches, which we try to do every… — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
I don't think we had a hard time with ["Mary and Jane"]. It is just, it was the constant management of it. — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
We like to make sure there is a plot at the center of it and that you care about the people but to poke… — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
Two years ago it felt novel to do the East Side and then tons of other stuff have come up set in that world,… — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
We also had an "in" with MTV those days. Tara Reid was engaged to Carson Daly. She just called him and was like, "Do… — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
There is an episode [in "Mary and Jane"] where there is not a lot of pot smoking, but there is a giant wall of… — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
Totally whatever we want to put in there. Then it was really "Now we are going to make it. We really need to find… — Harry Elfont Copy Share Image
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![“I don't think we had a hard time with ["Mary and Jane"]. It is just, it was the constant management of it.” quote by Harry Elfont](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/62f/harry-elfont-28944_constant_i-don-t-think-we-had-a-hard-time-with-ma_1837944.jpg)
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