Deborah Kaplan Quotes
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I actually didn't even think about "Josie and the Pussycats" . I was like, "Oh yeah we kind of took some shots at MTV," but I think everyone had a good sense of humor about it. People either got that movie completely, or completely missed it and dumped all over it.
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There are a couple of things that we did not get to do last season of Mary and Jane. There was one that we had written and then we had to excise it and still have not gone back to it.
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It is not an easy thing to do found the tone right away.
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There are more stakes in Mary and Jane, which is always good.
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I was trying to think of a word that was not offensive. Yeah, Harry Elfont is right - it is kind of a different MTV for sure.
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It is not like every episode of "Mary and Jane" people are sitting around getting high.
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I think at a certain point we a little bit forgot that it was a pot show. I think I said something to Harry Elfont, around Episode 7 of mary and Jane, I was like, "We have a pot show. Nobody is smoking any weed." There is literally a shot in the season finale where everybody lights up at the same time. I was like, "I feel like we are not honoring our concept." It just became a show. It became a show about these two girls doing this crazy thing and getting into all these adventures and it was really not about the weed.
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We both wuth Harry Elfont had those sort of misfit childhoods.
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To be fair, that MTV was very cooperative with the film "Josie and the Pussycats", and this MTV has been very cooperative. I actually didn't even think about it until you said it.
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I don't know if it Mary and Jane is a do-over or wanting someone to have made certain entertainment for us that did not exist when we were that age, but we keep going back and doing it again. I have a 12-year-old girl now and I want to make things that will speak to her. Things that will that have lessons for her to take away.
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I have the Google alert for marijuana articles come on my phone everyday. There are some interesting ones that have come up that I file away.