The original pilot script [ of "Mary and Jane"], we literally just wrote for fun. It was, let's just do this.

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.

Somebody said, there is no show if it goes legal. But actually, there is.

The pilot is easy. It is 30 minutes, 20 minutes. It is not that much to juggle.

I don't think we had a hard time with ["Mary and Jane"]. It is just, it was the constant management of it.

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.

We feel like we are using the East Side to kind of spoof what everybody thinks is cool.

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.

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

A man is no better than he has to be.

I always like [while filming] to have a sense of what led this person to this point.

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

Your heart is mine; there I reign. I am content.

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?