Amy Heckerling Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

NYU was my comfort zone.

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 went to art and design high school with a lot of people taking fashion. They would get up in the morning, and what they put on meant a lot to them.

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.

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

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

I don't think people know 'Nosfuratu.'

I really live in my own kind of universe.

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

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

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

Blood probably tastes like salty water, right?

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

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

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

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.

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

The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me.

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

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

I'm just not happy with Hollywood.

I didn't go to Hebrew school.

For me, New York is home because that's where I'm from.

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.

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.

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.

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

Bitterness is so ugly.

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

With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller.

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

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

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.

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.