Amy Heckerling Quotes
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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.
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I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass, when I was 14, I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.
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There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people.
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When I did 'Fast Times,' I felt very close emotionally to the characters. I liked those characters because they all had to work, so they were dealing with adult problems even though they were very immature, and I could relate to that.
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There's something you do when you're completely confident that just can't be replicated when you know you're doing something wrong.
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I really live in my own kind of universe.
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I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.
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Bitterness is so ugly.
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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.
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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.
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I can't stomach most of the movies about women.
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I wasn't bat mitzvahed.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, 'Dracula 2000,' and they touched on something interesting, but it only worked in the context of that particular movie, which was that the original vampire was Judas.
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I didn't go to Hebrew school.
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I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.