We feel like we are using the East Side to kind of spoof what everybody thinks is cool. — Harry Elfont East 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 Fun Copy Share Image
Somebody said, there is no show if it goes legal. But actually, there is. — Harry Elfont Ifs 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… — Harry Elfont Bits 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… — Harry Elfont Different 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… — Harry Elfont Advantage Copy Share Image
The pilot is easy. It is 30 minutes, 20 minutes. It is not that much to juggle. — Harry Elfont Easy 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… — Harry Elfont Apartment Copy Share Image
I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements. — Harry Elfont Elements 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 Constant Copy Share Image
It is just fun to play with [in "Mary and Jane"]. I think our sense of humor tends to go that way. — Harry Elfont Fun Copy Share Image
We ["Mary and Jane"] did not want to be a weed show, like it is a bunch of people sitting around smoking. — Harry Elfont Bunch 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… — Harry Elfont Consistent 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… — Harry Elfont Come up Copy Share Image
Hopefully we have a slightly different vibe, but also East Side is where a lot young people live. It is a really… — Harry Elfont Areas Copy Share Image
When we were done and not picked up to series yet, they wanted us to read lots of writers. I was like,… — Harry Elfont Done 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… — Harry Elfont Care 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… — Harry Elfont Engaged Copy Share Image
The one thing that we wanted to make sure in the pilot [of "Mary and Jane"] is that we could go everywhere.… — Harry Elfont Areas Copy Share Image
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![“Totally whatever we want to put in there. Then it was really "Now we are going to make it. We really need to find a consistent tone."I think the pilot ["Mary and Jane"] actually got it. It was more about the other episodes making sure everything else.” quote by Harry Elfont](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e36/harry-elfont-28944_consistent_totally-whatever-we-want-to-put-in-there_2132345.jpg)
![“The one thing that we wanted to make sure in the pilot [of "Mary and Jane"] is that we could go everywhere. Part of the fun of them being a delivery service is that they go to different areas episode to episode. We do have an episode in the beach and there is an episode in the luxury rehab. It's…” quote by Harry Elfont](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/34c/harry-elfont-28944_areas_the-one-thing-that-we-wanted-to-make-sur_3226917.jpg)