Quotes by Harry Elfont - Page 1

Somebody said, there is no show if it goes legal. But actually, there is.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
Ifs
Said
Shows
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The pilot is easy. It is 30 minutes, 20 minutes. It is not that much to juggle.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
Easy
Minutes
Pilots
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We feel like we are using the East Side to kind of spoof what everybody thinks is cool.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
East
Sides
Thinking
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It is just fun to play with [in "Mary and Jane"]. I think our sense of humor tends to go that way.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
Fun
Play
Thinking
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We ["Mary and Jane"] did not want to be a weed show, like it is a bunch of people sitting around smoking.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
People
Smoking
Weed
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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.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
Hard Times
Management
Thinking
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The original pilot script [ of "Mary and Jane"], we literally just wrote for fun. It was, let's just do this.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
Fun
Pilots
Scripts
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I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
Elements
Satire
Want
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There is an episode [in "Mary and Jane"] where there is not a lot of pot smoking, but there is a giant wall of weed in their apartment.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
Smoking
Wall
Weed
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We did want it ["Mary and Jane"] to feel a little different and have some surreal weird touches, which we try to do every episode. That is what we took advantage of.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
Different
Trying
Want
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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 / Screenwriter
Fun
People
Plot
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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 now? It's all original programming.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
Mtv
People
Talking
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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 / Screenwriter
Kind
Mtv
Want
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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 certainly how we branded. The thing it does is enables us to be a little bit surreal.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
Doe
Littles
Thinking
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Hopefully we have a slightly different vibe, but also East Side is where a lot young people live. It is a really fun, trendy, funky neighborhood, and it is ripe for satire, that area specifically.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
Different
Fun
People
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Two years ago it felt novel to do the East Side and then tons of other stuff have come up set in that world, but we still liked it. It felt like people are using East Side in other shows because it is cool.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
People
Two
Years
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When we were done and not picked up to series yet, they wanted us to read lots of writers. I was like, "No." Then we finally were picked up. It is hard not to start thinking of story lines. It is like doodling.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
Doodling
Stories
Thinking
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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.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
Needs
Thinking
Tone
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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 all different kinds of things we are making fun of in LA.
Harry Elfont / Screenwriter
Beach
Fun
Luxury
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