Amy Heckerling Quotes
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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.
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There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 can't stomach most of the movies about women.
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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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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 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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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.