Top 44 Amy Heckerling Quotes

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.

I really live in my own kind of universe.

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.

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.

Everything you try to do in life, of any value, people are going to be saying, ‘No, no, no.’ You have to have the ability to not see that or hear that.

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

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.

Babies don’t need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

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

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.

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

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

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

Bitterness is so ugly.

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

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

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.

There’s a whole vampire community online – those are some crazy people.

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.

I’ve always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They’re always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don’t see them that way.

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.

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.

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

I hope they remake ‘Look Who’s Talking’ – then I’d make some money!

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.

I’m just not happy with Hollywood.

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

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.

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.

The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me.

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.

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.

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

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.

I don’t think people know ‘Nosfuratu.’

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

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

I didn’t go to Hebrew school.

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.

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

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.

I sometimes think it’s better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they’re not supposed to.

Blood probably tastes like salty water, right?