We also had an "in" with MTV those days. Tara Reid was engaged to Carson Daly. She just called him and was like, "Do you want to be in the movie?" So they kind of had to make it work. — 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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