Amy Heckerling Quotes

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Amy Heckerling

Profession : Director

Birth : May 7, 1954

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

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

Amy Heckerling

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

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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.

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

Amy Heckerling

NYU was my comfort zone.

Amy Heckerling

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.'

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In Hollywood, whenever you do anything, it seems like there's going to be 30 of them. When I did 'Look Who's Talking,' people went: 'Oh but there's going to be this baby movie and that baby movie.' I can't worry about that. I can only do what I want to do.

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Bitterness is so ugly.

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I don't think people know 'Nosfuratu.'

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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.

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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.

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For my money, the movies of the '70s were just amazing.

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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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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.

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I wasn't bat mitzvahed.

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I'm real excited by a phone where I can look at my kid and talk to her face.

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

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

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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.

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