Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
We feel like we are using the East Side to kind of spoof what everybody thinks is cool.
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.
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.
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.
We ["Mary and Jane"] did not want to be a weed show, like it is a bunch of people sitting around smoking.
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.
The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.
A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.
If you're injecting fear into other people, then you're trying to kill their minds. You're trying to get them to stop thinking.