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  • Film Director
  • born 1954
  • 61 quotes

Amy Heckerling, Film Director (born 1954), is quoted 61 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Bitterness, Hollywood, Horrible and Freeway.

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Bitterness is so ugly.

NYU was my comfort zone.

I didn't go to Hebrew school.

The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me.

Blood probably tastes like salty water, right?

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there.

With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller.

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

I hope they remake 'Look Who's Talking' - then I'd make some money!

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people.

I'd rather see what young people are going through than see things explode.

I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.

I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

Unfortunately, if you're going to say anything that's in your head, you're going to get some kickback.

I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

After Gmail, if you have AOL, people are like, 'Are you still with this?' What does it matter what e-mail you have?

I wasted most of my 20s being so frustrated I forgot to have fun. I was so concentrated on one thing - 'Must make movie.'

I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.

I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.

If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.

There's something you do when you're completely confident that just can't be replicated when you know you're doing something wrong.

The way things have changed. The pictures in the womb they have now. They're just amazing. They're just like a snapshot of a person.

Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.

When you have somebody writing or acting for you, you have to be free to have them hate you so you can get your ideas across without worrying.

Some women are great, and you wouldn't have been able to get to where you are without them, and others are doing what they can to undermine you.

I get offered: 'Here's a girl who's mad at another girl for having a wedding on the same day.' That'll be a big hit, but I don't want to do that.

Sometimes people say oh you did one of my favorite movies and I will ask them what the other one is and it's always something that I totally hate.

In one respect, I like the freedom of using all the people that I love instead of being dictated by the studio to use the hot person of the moment.

Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it.

I like being able to tape things and then having them home waiting for you, but just dealing with the Time Warner Cable people will drive you insane.

I always get hats but never have the nerve to wear them. Hats are a thing that are really stylish, but you have to have the confidence to pull it off.

Sometimes people say, 'Oh you did one of my favorite movies,' and I will ask them what the other one is, and it's always something that I totally hate.

It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There's a big advantage to being the outsider.

Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing.

A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.

When I first got my driver's license, I was hit by a drunk driver. He was coming off of a freeway, and I was hurt pretty badly from somebody driving really fast.

When I was 20, I had these furrowed lines between my brows because I was always angry. And I was 20. I don't think that was a mark of age; it was just my personality.

I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.

I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to.

To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don't see them that way.

When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'

In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.

I was in a special class, where you skip a grade - you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn't. I was too focused on trying to be popular.

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