Amy Heckerling Quotes

Amy Heckerling is an American film director and screenwriter. She is known for directing successful comedies such as "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Clueless." Heckerling's contributions to the film industry and her skill in crafting memorable comedies have made her a notable figure in Hollywood.

I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'm real excited by a phone where I can look at my... -Amy Heckerling

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

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy ... -Amy Heckerling

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

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.

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.

I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the... -Amy Heckerling

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

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

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.

Teens are the target demographic for everything in... -Amy Heckerling

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me.... -Amy Heckerling

The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me.

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.

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.

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 hope they remake 'Look Who's Talking' - then I'd... -Amy Heckerling

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I wasn't bat mitzvahed.... -Amy Heckerling

I wasn't bat mitzvahed.

With electronics, they just get smaller and smalle... -Amy Heckerling

With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller.

Blood probably tastes like salty water, right?... -Amy Heckerling

Blood probably tastes like salty water, right?

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

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

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.

There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born.

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