Amy Heckerling Quotes
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Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the rolled-down stockings. They sort of referenced that in 'Cabaret,' when Liza Minnelli was singing 'Mein Herr,' and I love the way she looks in that scene.
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I'd rather see what young people are going through than see things explode.
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Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
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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.
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For my money, the movies of the '70s were just amazing.
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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.
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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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Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.
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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.
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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.'
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You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.
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I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.
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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.
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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.
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Blood probably tastes like salty water, right?
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If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.
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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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The building in the Bronx where I grew up was filled with mostly Holocaust survivors. My two best friends' parents both survived the camps. Everyone in my grandparents' building had tattoos. I'd go shopping with my grandparents, and the butcher, the baker, everybody in the whole neighborhood had tattoos.
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For me, New York is home because that's where I'm from.
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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.
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With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller.
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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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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.
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I hope they remake 'Look Who's Talking' - then I'd make some money!